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With the start of the new year in 2002, the 12 members of the European Union launched a single currency across their borders, replacing individual country currencies and singling out the Euro as their one shared monetary denomination. Marketplace, a daily economics news program heard …

In this economics activity, students will compare immediate benefits to long-term costs of fiscal stimulus during recessions.

Financial Fitness for Life Check out these new e-Book versions of the Council for Economic Education’s popular Financial Fitness for Life® Parent Guides. Parent Guides are a first-time-ever curriculum developed for parents to begin sharing Financial Fitness for Life® with their childre…

This lesson uses the Better Money Habits video Steps to Help You Get Out of Debt to explain the concept of debt.

In this personal finance lesson, students explore budget constraints by solving a contextual problem.

International trade allows countries to buy and sell both domestic and foreign goods, as well as services and financial assets. A country's transactions are summarized in a set of accounts called the "Balance of Payments (BOP)." Students will learn how to record transactions in the BOP acco…

Adjust the numbers in this interactive to see if you can balance the budget. This interactive is intended for use with our National Budget Simulation lesson plan.

In this economics lesson, students will examine political forces influencing the federal budget.

Students will learn how productivity and government policy influences the distribution of income and create and analyze Lorenz curves and the Gini coefficient.

Students use a looping activity to review personal finance vocabulary.