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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: What Do Tax Rates' Ups and Downs Mean for Economic Growth?

Do higher tax rates slow economic growth? As part of his reporting on Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Economic Incentives, Roles of Government

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Why Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?

How do feelings about ideology and economic inequality affect a person's happiness? As part of his reporting of Making Sen$e...

Key Concepts: Distribution of Income, Economic Systems, Income Distribution…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: For Undocumented Workers, It's Not-so-Sweet Home Alabama

The controversial Alabama immigration law, know as HB 56, instructs employers to check a worker's immigration status with the government's...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment, Goods and Services…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Does U.S. Economic Inequality Have a Good Side?

A new Congressional Budget Office analysis supports the idea that income inequality has grown considerably over the past few decades....

Key Concepts: Distribution of Income, Economic Incentives, Economic Institutions…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: W, V, U or L: How Is the Economic Recovery Shaping Up, Literally?

The latest unemployment figures out Friday reinforce the notion that the U.S. economy remains weak when compared to recoveries of...

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Employment and Unemployment

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Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

EconEdLink Overview

This video is a basic introduction to the features of EconEdLink. It takes a look at the three most important...

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Grades K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

EconEdLink Workshop Overview

This video is from an EconEdLink workshop held at the National Center for Economic and Financial Education. Teachers learn how...

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Can America's Jobless Fill American Jobs?

With the U.S. unemployment rate stuck around 9 percent, economics correspondent Paul Solman explores whether widespread joblessness is simply the...

Key Concepts: Business Cycles, Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Americans Facing More Inequality, More Debt and Now More Trouble?

Did America's record-high level of economic inequality in 2007 help cause the financial crisis of 2008? With Americans' borrowing back...

Key Concepts: Borrow, Budgeting, Credit…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Land of the Free, Home of the Poor

Financial gains over the last decade in the United States have been mostly made at the "tippy-top" of the economic...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Distribution of Income, Financial Markets…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Amid Debt-Ceiling Drama, Interest Rates Have Hardly Followed the Script

On Wall Street, stocks initially rallied Monday on the news of a debt-ceiling deal, but a weak report on manufacturing...

Key Concepts: Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Credit, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: How to Succeed in Business by Really, Really Trying

Is the aptitude for business (the legal kind) distributed among convicted criminals as it is in the general population? One...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Character, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: From Ball and Chain to Cap and Gown: Getting a B.A. Behind Bars

What college is tougher to get into than Harvard, Princeton or Yale? Bard College. Not the campus in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.,...

Key Concepts: Character, Division of Labor/Specialization, Goods and Services…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Protecting Its Fannie: How Mortgage Giant Primed the Bubble, Covered Its Assets

As part of his Making Sen$e series, Paul Solman reports on the new book, "Reckless Endangerment," which argues that for...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Business Cycles, Credit…

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Grades 9-12

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

As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports from Rhode Island...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Business Cycles…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: 'Sesame Street' Tells You How to Get to Sunnier Days Financially

As part of his continuing coverage of Making Sen$e of financial news, business correspondent Paul Solman reports on how "Sesame...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Budgeting, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis

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