Maximum Employment
Learn about maximum employment and how it is measured.
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Lessons & Activities
31-45 min
Unemployment and Health Insurance Coverage
OVERVIEW
This lesson focuses on the relationship between unemployment and health insurance coverage. Students search for data on unemployment and health insurance coverage 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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INFOGRAPHICS & COMICS
VIDEO Q&A
0-15 MIN
The Unemployment Rate Explained
Learn about the indicators the Federal Reserve uses to help it achieve its monetary policy goals.
MODULES
16-30 MIN
Types of Unemployment
Describe the three types of unemployment
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
0-15 MIN
How do we Measure Unemployment?
Demonstrate how we calculate the civilian unemployment rate.
