Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Insure My Life?
In this lesson, life insurance options will be explored. Students will conduct online research to compare life insurance policies from 5 different companies. This is a Commerce and Information Technology lesson plan.
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Cfpb: Understanding How Insurance Works: A Case Study About Lucy
Students read about how insurance works, then review a case study to see how insurance choices can affect personal finances for a rural young adult.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ch. 14: Monetary Policy and Bank Regulation: Bank Regulation
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Discuss the relationship between bank regulation and monetary policy, explain bank supervision, explain how deposit insurance and lender of last resort are two strategies...
Other
Asset and Income Preservation: Long Term Care Insurance and Medicaid Planning
One of the most important aspects of income protection for the senior citizen is the benefit of owning a long term care insurance policy.
Other
Insurance Information Institute: Homeowners Insurance Info
The Insurance Information Institute is a nonprofit fact-finding organization dedicated to improving public understanding of property and casualty insurance. Explore homeowner's insurance basics, buying home insurance, filing a claim, and...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ch. 14: Monetary Policy and Bank Regulation: Key Terms
This is a list of key terms and definitions covered in Ch. 14: Monetary Policy and Bank Regulation from the Texas Gateway AP Macroeconomics online textbook.
Other
Intelli Quote: What Are Term Life Insurance Premiums and Policies
This page goes over the basics of term life insurance and gives valuable advice about when to get term life insurance.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Right Car Insurance
This instructional activity is designed to have students investigate insurance products for vehicles. As part of the instructional activity they will compare quotes as part of the parents' policy and as their own policy. This is a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Ch. 16: Government Budgets & Fiscal Policy: Automatic Stabilizers
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Describe how discretionary fiscal policy can be used by the federal government to stabilize the economy, Identify examples of automatic stabilizers, and Understand how a...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mit: Open Course Ware: Labor Economics and Public Policy
An introductory course in labor economics from MIT. Emphasizes applied microeconomics and empirical analysis. Includes suggested readings, assignments, and exams.
Digital History
Digital History: Social Security, Unemployment Insurance, and Welfare [Pdf]
After reading a brief history of Social Security and its inception in the United States during the Great Depression, find out about the various programs that provide a social safety net to its citizens. See how these programs are funded,...
Other
Amos Web: A Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy
Exploring the economy can be a fun adventure with the Pedestrian's Guide to the Economy. Use this site to find your answers to economic topics in a user-friendly format with comic strip guides.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Healthcare Crisis Timeline
Explore the history of health care and health insurance in 20th century America and create an illustrated timeline featuring major events and policies that led to the current state of national health care crisis.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ornl: Genetics Privacy and Legislation
Resource outlines issues related to genetic information and technologies derived from the Human Genome Project. Government policy, legislation and discrimination issues are highlighted.
Other
Nuclearfiles.org: The Triad Doctrine
Summarizes the policy of assured destruction under the three-prong strategy known as the Triad Doctrine.
Other
Ss Bulletin: Constitutional Background to the Social Security Act of 1935 [Pdf]
A very interesting discussion of the potential problems that plagued the implementation of the Social Security Act. Read about the cases brought before the Supreme Court which gave Congress the constitutional ability to tax and spend for...
Federal Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis: Calming the Panics of the Great Depression
Read this winning essay on the actions of the Federal Reserve in the 1920s that contributed to the crash of the stock market in 1929, ushering the Great Depression.
University of Virginia
Miller Center at Uva: Truman Announces Fair Deal Program January 5, 1949
President Harry S. Truman presented his ideas for a Fair Deal in his State of the Union address in 1949. Read about his plans for extending the progressive legislation that had its start in Roosevelt's New Deal. Find out what passed,...