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Pov: Living Wage v. Minimum Wage: What's the Difference [Pdf]
A great lesson plan based on a 2006 POV documentary that examined the problems the minimum wage worker had in trying to get ahead economically. Good information that compares the difference between a living wage and the minimum wage of...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Unemployment in My Hometown
In this lesson plan, students interpret data tables from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to compare national and local unemployment data.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Money Doesn't Grow on Trees
This lesson plan helps students distinguish between earned and unearned income by identifying methods for getting money.
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: The Last Auction
Interactive experience that allows students to walk through a small, farming town in South Carolina, and see its transition from a tobacco farming community and a textile based economy to a new economy. Witness the residents' struggles...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective: Review Questions
This section provides 12 review study questions covering the content of Chapter 12: Neoclassical Perspective from Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online text.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: Where Did All the Money Go? The Great Depression Mystery
Use this lesson plan to have students investigate how the American economy went from boom to bust in the 1920s. Find the resources needed for the lesson plan as well as important discussion questions for individual and class consideration.
Other
Hoover Online!: Circular No. 4
A detailed description of three major attempts made by Herbert Hoover and his administration to get money back into circulation and stem the tide of the Great Depression. Read about the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Feed the Hungry With Food Stamp Programs
This collection uses primary sources to the history of food stamp programs.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Using Fiscal Policy to Fight Recession, Unemployment, & Inflation
A learning module that uses charts and information to explain how expansionary and contractionary fiscal policies shift aggregate demand and influence the economy.
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta: Classroom Economist: Unemployment
This lesson takes a look at the labor market and includes a discussion of how the labor market differs from a product market, what the different ways of looking at it are, and how to measure it.
Digital History
Digital History: Reaganomics
This on "Reaganomics," President Reagan's economic policy during his two presidential terms in the 1980s, discusses his laissez-faire approach and tax-cutting, which contributed to the economic recovery of that period.
Digital History
Digital History: The Civil Rights Movement Moves North
Summers of the late 1960s was a time of widespread violence and rioting in the nation's major inner cities. What was previously thought of as a problem of the South had spread nation-wide and was now demanding immediate attention.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: The Birthday
This poem expresses the events to come after turning age thirty.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Civilian Force and Unemployment by State
A table that compares the unemployed civilian labor force by state using current data which is seasonally adjusted.
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Employment Situation Summary
This site from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics provides information on the current unemployment status in the United States.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: President Franklin D. Roosevelt
This companion to the PBS series surveys the career of the longest-serving president in U.S. history and leader through the Great Depression and World War II.
US Census Bureau
U.s. Census Bureau: Income
This U.S. Census website gives current and past information on the income of Americans.
PBS
Pbs: Commanding Heights: Battle for the World Economy: John Maynard Keynes
Profile of Keynes excerpted from Daniel Yergin and Joseph Stanislaw's book on the evolution of the global economy, "The Commanding Heights."
Other
Center for Regulatory Effectiveness: Omb Papers: The Cost of Federal Regulation
A paper discussing the economic impacts and costs of the Employment Act of 1946. (Published 1979)
Econoclass
Econoclass: Spending and Output Strings
In this classroom activity, "output" cards and "spending" cards are placed on a string. As each increase or decrease, the economy faces more unemployment or inflation. A good visual device to study the relationships among output,...
The Federal Reserve System
Federal Reserve Board: The Economic Outlook and Challenges for Monetary Policy
A speech given in 1997 which evaluated the economic outlook using the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment, or NAIRU, and outlined challenges for monetary policy. (January 16, 1997)
Other
Oecd: Implementing the Oecd Jobs Strategy [Pdf]
"Implementing the OECD Jobs Strategy Lessons from Member Countries' Experience," from The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1996. This is an in-depth site which contains lots of graphs and charts showing...
Historica Canada
Historica Canada: Heritage Minutes: Maple Leaf Gardens
During the Great Depression, to create work, an icon of hockey was built. This dramatization of the building of Maple Gardens gives a great background to the Depression as well as other links to digital sources. The resource is available...
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
The home of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has a keyword search feature for the BLS web pages. It is an ongoing updated information base.