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This lesson supports the Inflation, Unemployment, and Stabilization Policies section of the Advanced Placement Macroeconomics course. It introduces government budget deficits and the national debt and analyzes the long-run effects of budget deficits on the economy. This lesson appears…

Celebrate Women's History Month in your economics and personal finance classroom!  Use these quotes by famous women to inspire discussions and writing prompts about money, work, success, and power.

Updated with new data! Students identify costs associated with voting. Then they make predictions about who might be more likely to vote based on their understanding of opportunity costs.

In this economics lesson, students will learn that Medicare was the fulfillment of what was believed to be Social Security.

In this economics lesson, students will examine the creation of Social Security.

In this economics lesson, students will learn about Rhetoric and how it effects the economy. 

In this personal finance lesson, students will use breakeven analysis formula to analyze investment options.

This lesson investigates the value of sports franchises in the various professional sports leagues. Students will investigate the revenues and costs of pro sports teams and determine which teams are the most valuable. Lastly, students will understand the specific rules of the game that lea…

Advancements in transportation have played a key role in the growth of our nation. U.S. government policies have also had a considerable impact on the development of transport as we know it today. In this series of three lessons, the students examine transportation and its impact on our nat…

This lesson introduces regulation and information as two tools used by government to promote fair competition and complete information in a market economy. Using the 1906 Pure Food and Drugs Act as a case study, students explore the reasons buyers and sellers asked the federal governme…