Content brought to you by our partner, Better Money Habits. Explains interest rates as related to personal finance by actions of the Federal Reserve Bank.

In this investigation, students are asked to explain a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) announcement about unemployment, and look for a contradiction in the message. Then they are introduced to the definitions of employment, unemployment, and...

In 2014, Michael Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, designed a proposal known as "the soda ban" that would put limits on the size of sugary drinks that people could buy. The proposal was favored among health advocates, including...

The BBC graphically depicts the 2008 sub-prime mortgage crisis and provides information on the rise of the mortgage bond market and the housing price crash.

Read about how the fabric of the nation was changed during the Great Depression. See how the institutions of life--marriage, birth rates, education, public health--all saw disruption because of the compromised economy.

Explains what Progressivism looked like in Texas and how it differed from national Progressivism. It describes the laws and election reforms that discriminated against African Americans, immigrants, and poor people, the education reforms...

Research the rise of communism and explain why the Soviet state of 1917 put such a strong emphasis on propaganda. Explore Soviet propaganda techniques and rate their effectiveness.

China's remarkable aggregation of national power over the past 35 years has been a source of wonderment: to economists, who have been surprised by that country's consistently high rate of growth; to political scientists, who are at a...

The Kvarken Archipelago (Finland) and the High Coast (Sweden) are situated in the Gulf of Bothnia, a northern extension of the Baltic Sea. The 5,600 islands of the Kvarken Archipelago feature unusual ridged washboard moraines, 'De Geer...