Maximum Employment
Learn about maximum employment and how it is measured.
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Lessons & Activities
31-45 min
Educational Attainment and Unemployment Rates by US County
OVERVIEW
This lesson focuses on the relationship between educational attainment and unemployment. Students search for data on educational attainment and unemployment and visualize them in FRED. The goals are for students to observe patterns in mapped data, note differences across geographical areas, and hypothesize the reasons for those patterns and differences.
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VIDEO Q&A
Economic Lowdown Video Series
Quickly introduce 11 basic economic topics in less than 15 minutes.
MODULES
16-30 MIN
Measuring Unemployment
Look at why unemployment statistics matter.
READING Q&A
16-30 MIN
Jargon Alert: Full Employment
Learn about factors influencing the unemployment rate.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
46-60 MIN
Evaluating and Contextualizing Authority
Determine the authority of an information source.
LESSONS & ACTIVITIES
31-45 MIN
Unemployment and Health Insurance Coverage
Learn about the relationship between unemployment and health insurance coverage.
