Spring 2015
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- Personal Financial Education in the Southeast
- Service Learning and Community Outreach in Personal Finance
- Know about Student Loan Debt
- Financing Human Capital
- Financial Literacy Month
- Teaching about Taxes
- Landfill Harmonic
- EconSouth Guided Reading Questions
- Music Meets Econ
- Bringing Economics Center Stage
- The Nashville Music Economy
- Arts and Economics Infographic
- Curriculum Unit: Making Finance Personal
- Lesson: Factors Influencing GDP
- Lesson: CPI and Inflation
- Lesson: Unemployment
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Teenage Unemployment: What's the Local Story?
In this lesson, students will respond to a request from their principal to provide unemployment data on the school's working age teens. The students will conduct a survey to simulate the process used by the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) in producing the monthly jobs report. Students will use the survey data to calculate the labor force, labor force participation rate, the unemployment rate, and to sort survey respondents into a variety of unemployment categories. After students understand the categories into which survey respondents are sorted, they will write a press release announcing their results and create and perform a short role play demonstrating their understanding of the categories used by the BLS.
