Grade 9-12

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Making Sen$e with Paul Solman: In Spain, Unemployment Piles onto Economic Worries

Updated: July 23 2010,

Author: barrel fan

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Paul Solman wraps up his weeklong reporting on Europe’s economic woes with a final report concentrating on the massive unemployment problem in Spain.

Grades 9-12

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Key Concepts: Budgeting, Opportunity Cost, Saving

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Key Concepts: Decision Making/Cost-Benefit Analysis, Employment and Unemployment

45 min

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Key Concepts: Employment and Unemployment, Fiscal Policy, GDP

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