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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: What quality of life can workers earning nation's highest minimum wage afford?

Washington state has the highest minimum wage in the nation at $9.32. Can the stateâ€™s low-wage workers can meet their...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Business Costs and Revenues, Demand…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Artists Learn Art of Business to Brave Tough Economic Times

In the classical performing arts, more and more artists -- ever more highly skilled -- compete for fewer and fewer...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Performing Artists Compete, Move, Adapt in Tough Economy

A new report shows 45 percent of young adults who recently got a college degree are underemployed, and the next...

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

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Treasury Secretary Lew on Long-Term Unemployment, Party Divide on Spending Cuts

In a conversation with economics correspondent Paul Solman, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew addresses jobs and economic growth -- issues paramount...

Key Concepts: Aggregate Demand, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Business Cycles…

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

Consumers Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Consumers. Consumers are powerful in a market economy, and the economic choices of consumers...

Key Concepts: Consumers, Demand, Goods and Services…

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

Demand Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Demand. Demand refers to a relationship between price and the quantity of a good...

Key Concepts: Consumers, Demand, Elasticity of Demand…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Elasticity of Demand Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Elasticity of Demand. Price elasticity of demand is the way of measuring how much...

Key Concepts: Demand, Elasticity of Demand, Incentive

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Markets and Prices Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Markets and Prices. A market refers to a group of buyers and sellers for...

Key Concepts: Business Costs and Revenues, Demand, Market Structure…

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Grades 9-12

Price Ceilings and Floors Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Price Ceilings and Floors. A price ceiling is a legally established maximum price while...

Key Concepts: Demand, Markets, Markets and Prices…

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Grades 6-8, 9-12

Division of Labor/Specialization Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concepts of Division of Labor and Specialization. The division of labor refers to the practice that...

Key Concepts: Benefits of Trade, Credit, Demand…

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

Trade, Exchange and Interdependence Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Trade, Exchange and Interdependence. People do not make everything that they and their family...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Benefits of Trade, Credit…

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Grades 9-12

LeBron James, The Cavaliers, and Derived Demand

PBS video author Paul Solman reports that LeBron James has added $200 million in value to the city of Cleveland...

Key Concepts: Demand, Division of Labor/Specialization

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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 Would Raising Debt Ceiling Impact U.S. Bond Market?

As part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, economics correspondent Paul Solman reports on how raising the...

Key Concepts: Budget Deficit, Budget Deficits and Public Debt, Credit…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: For Automakers, Better Batteries Crucial to Success of New Electric Cars

Paul Solman looks at efforts to make electric cars more viable by building better batteries and making them more aerodynamic.

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Demand, Entrepreneurs…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: GM, Detroit Pinning Hopes for Future on Chevy Volt

Paul Solman travels to Detroit for an update car and examines how GM and the city are hoping for a...

Key Concepts: Complementary Goods and Services, Demand, Entrepreneurs

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