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Lesson: Focus on Economic Data: Consumer Price Index and Inflation, August 2012
Focus on Economic Data: Consumer Price Index and Inflation, December 16, 2009
This lesson focuses on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and rate of inflation reported December 16, 2009, by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the month of November, 2009. Students read the BLS report, analyze the meaning of the CPI data, determine the change in consumer prices, and explore the impact of the change in the price level on themselves, their families, consumers, and producers.
Focus on Economic Data: Consumer Price Index and Inflation, October 15, 2009
This lesson focuses on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and rate of inflation reported October 15, 2009, by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the month of September, 2009. Students read the BLS report, analyze the meaning of the CPI data, determine the change in consumer prices, and explore the impact of the change in the price level on themselves, their families, consumers, and producers.
Focus on Economic Data: Consumer Price Index and Inflation, February 19, 2010
This lesson focuses on the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and rate of inflation reported February 19, 2010, by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for the month of January, 2010. Students will read the BLS report, read about the meaning of the CPI, determine the change in consumer prices, and explore how the change in the CPI impacts consumers and the economy.
Related Publications
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Teaching Financial Crises
Teaching Financial Crises is an eight lesson resource that provides an organizing framework in which to contextualize all of the media attention that has been paid to the recent financial crisis, as well as put it in a historical context. The current events stories, opinion pieces, and other popular media pieces that are today in great supply have generally not connected to educational objectives, historical analysis, and economic processes and concepts that are used in the high school classroom. In Teaching Financial Crises, teachers will find a non-partisan and non-ideological resource to help them simplify and offer balanced perspectives on this challenging subject matter.
4 out of 9 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.
Trading Around the World
Created as a supplement to existing middle school world geography and world history courses, the 5 units in this guide introduce students to the basics of global trade.
1 out of 7 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.