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Lesson: Focus on Economic Data: The Unemployment Rate - November 2003
Focus on Economic Data: The Unemployment Rate - April 2003
The unemployment rate for the month of April was 6.0 percent, an increase from the 5.8 percent in March. Total employment fell by 48,000 in April.
Focus on Economic Data: The Unemployment Rate - November 2001
The unemployment rate for the month of November 2001 was 5.7 percent, up a sharp 0.4% from September. The number of individuals employed decreased by 331,000.
Focus on Economic Data: The U.S. December Unemployment Rate - January 6, 2006
Explore the connection between the economic indicators and real-world issues. These lessons typically can be done in one class period.
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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.
3 out of 9 lessons from this publication relate to this EconEdLink lesson.