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Lesson: Focus on Economic Data: The Inflation Rate - March 2002
Focus on Economic Data: The Inflation Rate - August 2001
The seasonally adjusted rate of increase in the consumer price index during the month of August 2001 was 0.1 percent or one-tenth of one percent. The rate of increase in the consumer price index over the last twelve months was 2.7 percent. In August, the core index, which excludes energy and food prices, increased by .2 percent. The core index has increased 2.7 percent over the last twelve months.
Focus on Economic Data: The Inflation Rate - January 2002
The seasonally adjusted rate of change in the consumer price index during the month of January 2002 was 0.2 percent or an increase of two-tenths of one percent. The rate of increase in the consumer price index over the past twelve months was 1.1 percent. In January, the core consumer price index, which excludes energy and food prices, also increased by 0.2 percent.
Focus on Economic Data: The Inflation Rate - September 2001
The seasonally adjusted rate of increase in the consumer price index during the month of September 2001 was 0.4 percent or four-tenths of one percent. The rate of increase in the consumer price index over the last twelve months was 2.6 percent. In August, the core index, which excludes energy and food prices, increased by .2 percent. The core index also increased 2.6 percent over the last twelve months.
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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.
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