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Learn about the importance of an emergency fund, how much you'll need and how to get started.

Savings strategies will provide new ideas for ways to save a little bit more and get closer to your goals.

Setting goals will walk you through why goals are important and how you establish them.

Students learn how to identify headlines in the news and current events as illustrations of problems in supply and demand. Students will be linked to news sites to create their own analysis of supply and demand issues in problems facing our society.

Money is what we use to show what goods or services are worth. When you do work, you are paid with money. When you sell something, the buyer gives you money. Sometimes it’s a lot of money and sometimes it’s just a little money. How much money you are given depends on how mu…

Students will use a Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) data dashboard to calculate budget deficits, surpluses, how much federal budgets in certain budget years added to the total public debt, and gross federal debt as percent of GDP. Using the information they have collected, students w…

In this lesson students learn decision making skills that will help them become better consumers. As consumers they have a variety of alternatives from which to choose. They learn about the importance of price information in making their decisions. First, students gather information on…

In this economics lesson, students will use cost-benefit analysis to build their own Minecraft shelter.

Students explore fiscal policy remedies used by the federal government to reduce volatile fluctuations in the business cycle.

Managing money is hard! Even when you know what you should do, it can be hard to actually do it. In these games from the PBS science series NOVA, students practice strategies for making financial decisions by taking care of a pet while learning how to overcome common behavioral biases.