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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: A Boom in Entrepreneurship, Self-Employment Among Late Bloomers

Are mature entrepreneurs on the rise? Economics correspondent Paul Solman talks to older workers who decided to pursue their own...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Entrepreneurs, Financial Investments…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Is Globalization Wiping Out the American Surfboard Industry?

Economic correspondent Paul Solman reports on an American-born product hit hard by globalization: the surfboard. In Southern California, U.S.-based manufacturers...

Key Concepts: Balance of Trade and Balance of Payments, Benefits of Trade, Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis…

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Grades 9-12

The 411 on College Education

One of the most important financial decisions people make is whether to go to college. The price tag of a...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Division of Labor/Specialization, Market Structures

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Manufacturer Vita Needle Finds Investment in Older Workers Turns a Big Profit

The average age of Vita Needle's workers is 74 years old, and that's no accident. The manufacturing company has intentionally...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Goods and Services, Producers

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Is Applying for Jobs Online Not an Effective Way to Find Work?

With a bad economy and nearly everyone on the internet, one job opening promoted online can receive thousands of applications....

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment, Goods and Services…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: With High Youth Unemployment, Making Sense of Summer Work Visas For Foreigners

Since the 1960s, the State Department has sponsored young foreigners for temporary, low-wage summer jobs in the U.S. But with...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment, Producers

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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 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

Productive Resources Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Productive Resources. Productive resources are used to produce goods and services and are classified...

Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Division of Labor/Specialization, Entrepreneurs…

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Grades 9-12

Employment and Unemployment Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concepts of Employment and Unemployment. Employment refers to people who have jobs while unemployment refers to...

Key Concepts: Aggregate Demand, Aggregate Supply, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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

Entrepreneurs Video and Quiz

This video teaches the concept of Entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are willing to risk their own resources in order to sell them...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization, Entrepreneurs, Producers…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: As Humans and Computers Merge ... Immortality?

Paul Solman interviews inventor Ray Kurzweil, who predicts that advancing technology will result in augmented brains, memories recorded on "mind...

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

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Grades 9-12

Invest in Yourself | Lesson Demo

This video is a classroom demonstration of Lesson 2: Invest in Yourself from CEE's Learning Earning and Investing for a...

Key Concepts: Division of Labor/Specialization

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Student Loan Debt: To Pay or Not to Pay?

In his second report this week on student lending, economics correspondent Paul Solman examines the challenges that indebted college graduates...

Key Concepts: Borrow, Credit, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Man vs. Machine: Will Human Workers Become Obsolete?

Part of his series on Making Sen$e of financial news, Paul Solman has been showcasing the future of technology from...

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

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Downloadable Gun Parts, Personalized Bioterror: the Downside of Innovation

Through innovation and technology, California think tank Singularity University aims to push the frontiers of progress. But what happens when...

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

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Tech's Next Feats? Maybe On-Demand Kidneys, Robot Sex, Cheap Solar, Lab Meat

Optimists at Silicon Valley think tank Singularity University are pushing the frontiers of human progress through innovation and emerging technologies,...

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

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: The Unemployment Paradox: Why Job Seekers, Employers Aren't Connecting

The U.S. job market appears to have a paradox: Many job seekers say they're desperate for work while many employers...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Division of Labor/Specialization, Employment and Unemployment…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: Author Charles Murray: Elites Should Teach Working Class How to Live REPORT

The super-educated upper class is out of touch but it could teach lower classes better ways to live, according to...

Key Concepts: Character, Distribution of Income, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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Grades 9-12

Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: 'Accordion' Families Expand for Boomerang Kids, 'Parasite Singles' to Move Home

In her new book, "The Accordion Family," sociologist Katherine Newman examines why more young adults in the world's wealthiest countries...

Key Concepts: Budgeting, Business Cycles, Division of Labor/Specialization…

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