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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Is Your Pension Safe? States Struggle With Pricey Challenges

Updated: June 22 2011,

Author: barrel fan

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Concepts

Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Business Cycles, Credit, Economic Institutions, Financial Investments, Financial Markets, Investing

As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports from Rhode Island on the struggles that states are facing over how to calculate investment returns for public pension funds to keep them fully funded.

Grades 9-12

Deceptive Advertising: Crossing the Line

Businesses use advertising to tell consumers about the goods and services they are selling. Businesses hope that their advertisements will...

Key Concepts: Advertising, Business Costs and Revenues, Economic Institutions…

Lesson

Grades 3-5

Shark Scam: Money Tales

Students read about two scheming sharks and decide were to invest their money.

Key Concepts: Financial Investments, Goods and Services, Money

45 mins

Lesson

Grades 6-8, 9-12

PBS-NOVA Financial Lab

Managing money is hard! Even when you know what you should do, it can be hard to actually do it....

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Opportunity Cost, Saving

45 min

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