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This lesson helps students better understand immigration, a major issue in the 2016 presidential election. Students learn how to evaluate economic and non-economic factors of immigration by assuming the roles of people who are affected--some positively and some negatively--by the migratio…

In this math lesson, students will examine and calculate interest on loans and investments.

This video teaches the concept of Productive Resources. Productive resources are used to produce goods and services and are classified into four categories: land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship.

In this personal finance activity, students will use Mint to learn about savings accounts and interest.

Paul Solman talks to people who have been out of work for 99 weeks or longer as part of his ongoing series on making sense of financial news.

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 2: Invest in Yourself from CEE's Learning Earning and Investing for a New Generation publication (Lesson 3 in the previous version). To explore the concept that people invest in themselves through education, the students work in two groups an…

The controversial Alabama immigration law, know as HB 56, instructs employers to check a worker's immigration status with the government's E-Verify system. Paul Solman reports from Alabama on how one of the nation's toughest immigration laws affects workers and employers.

ESSENTIAL DILEMMA Were the contradictory responses political leaders had to the panic of 1893 driven more by economic/political self-interest or by differing visions of what kind of country they wanted the United States to be?

In this personal finance lesson, students will learn about five types of risk in the modern investment world. 

The average age of Vita Needle's workers is 74 years old, and that's no accident. The manufacturing company has intentionally hired seniors -- a decision that has increased profits and benefited older workers who often have a harder time finding a job. Paul Solman reports on their unique mod…