General Financial Literacy

• Budgeting Your Financial Resources - Financial Literacy
  Financial planning helps you use your money to get the most out of life. It is important to realize that every purchase involves cost. To be truly satisfied with a purchase depends on analyzing its costs and benefits.

• Are the Best Things in Life Free?
  In this lesson students analyze choices that married couples make in order to understand that, contrary to expectations, these choices do have costs.
• Be All You Can Be...For Minimum Wage?
  Perhaps you have seen the catchy TV ads for the various branches of the United States military. These advertisements have become necessary because compulsory military service no longer exists in the United States. This Economics Minute explores how the elimination of the draft affected the number of military personnel that currently serve in the United States armed forces.
• Buying vs. Renting
  In this lesson, student's basic economic decision making skills will be used to weigh the pros and cons of home ownership, and to analyze housing options. It's time to find out what is right for YOU.
• The Economics of Homebuying
  This lesson provides an overview of the basics of buying a home for the first time. Students will examine programs that make first-time home-buying more affordable. Then they will examine over time several economic factors that influence the number of homes purchased. Finally students use a mortgage calculator to find out how the size of the down payment; length of the loan; and interest rate affect the cost of the loan.