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

How is the federal budget established, what is influencing decision makers, and what do we need to know? Help students to get a sense of the federal budget process with this primer video based upon the Understanding Fiscal Responsibility background document Overview of the Budget Process.

In this economics activity, students will analyze responses to COVID-19 crisis to learn about fiscal policy.

This video teaches the concepts of Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve. Monetary policy involves regulating the money supply, banks and the overall financial system. Monetary policy is conducted by a central bank, which in the United States is called the Federal Reserve.

This video teaches the concepts of Employment and Unemployment. Employment refers to people who have jobs while unemployment refers to people who wish to work but cannot find jobs.

This video teaches the concepts of Budget Deficits and Public Debt. If taxes collected are less than the money spent in a given year, the government has a budget deficit. When a budget deficit occurs, the government borrows the money that it needs to finance its expenditures. For example, th…

This video teaches the concept of Aggregate Demand. Aggregate demand shows the total (or aggregate) demand for final goods and services at a range of price levels for final output during a stated period of time.

In this personal finance lesson, students learn how compound interest situates itself within the financial life cycle.

In Policy Perspectives on the Federal Budget, a digital interactive activity, students think critically about Federal Budget policy choices from the perspectives of varied personas. For guidance on using the activity, please review our Policy Perspectives Usage Guidelines document. This acti…

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?