Students learn the importance of developing an emergency savings fund to deal with unexpected challenges and unplanned expenses.

In this project students will utilize math and reasoning skills to develop a personal budget. By weighing their expenses as "wants" vs. "needs," students will develop management skills and learn the importance of getting the most out of...

Students will be divided into groups of 2 or more. Each group will be given a choice of jobs that were available during the 1930s. Students will learn to manage their cost of living and household expenses.

This activity is a fun fact gathering mission! Alabama is rich in history, museums, natural and manmade attractions, and some just plain wacky attractions. Students will work in collaborative groups to create a guide to sites in Alabama...

By thinking about their own expenses, students explore how differentiating between needs and wants can inform daily financial decisions and rules to live by.

Dividing with decimals is a life skill used to share expenses.

In the late nineteenth century, the West developed into a modern agricultural machine- at the expense of farmers.

The extradition of Anthony Burns as a fugitive slave was the most memorable case of the kind that has occurred since the adoption of the Federal Constitution. It was memorable for the place and for the time of its occurrence; the place...

Saving starts with just a few simple changes to your spending. Learn how to save money on your everyday expenses, like groceries, transportation and entertainment. [3:50]

Football-themed game tests your consumer-finance aptitude regarding interest, banking, credit, budgeting, saving, and spending.

This lesson plan introduces young scholars to fundamental concepts of starting and running a business, focusing on break-even point analysis.

Learn all about budgeting including saving money and how to make and use a budget. Includes examples.

This online simulation should give you a better feel of the trade-offs which policy makers need to make in creating federal budgets and dealing with deficits. The simulation comes in a short and long version and allows learners to see...

Use a diagram to analyze the relationship between aggregate expenditure and economic output in the Keynesian model.

During his campaign for governor of the State of Minnesota, former professional wrestler Jesse "The Body" Ventura, promised to return to the taxpayers of Minnesota the budget surpluses that had been accumulating in the state. Upon...

Explore and evaluate different points of view on the rising costs of health care in the U.S., and identify the impact of rising costs. Formulate a solution to this problem, and write a persuasive letter proposing ways to control health...

Engaging, fun tutorials and interactive games related to earning, spending, saving, and budgeting money.

The Texas Workforce Commission provides "Unemployment Compensation and Tax Information" plus specific and general information about employment-related taxes. Click on any topic for lots of questions, answers, tips, and examples.

Free Ride helps young scholars identify goods and services provided by the government and evaluate the cost of government provided goods and services.

This site contains data on state government financial records.

This article offers useful information regarding the correct payment of payroll taxes under the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.

CCH Business Owner's Toolkit answers questions about self-employment taxes because "even if you don't hire anyone else to help you run your business, you're always going to have at least one employee, and that would be yourself."

Site from the Centers for Disease Control about what rabies is, its public health importance, and the costs related to prevention and prevalence.

Students follow each step of fiscal and monetary policy processes, to see the logic of how these tools are used to correct economic instability.