This lesson teaches students what economists mean when they talk about people who are employed, unemployed, and not in the labor force. It discusses the Current Population Survey and asks students to pose as government survey workers to determine the employment status of 10 people given in the lesson. Students also create a bar graph and a line graph to create a picture of the information they pretend to collect.

Concepts

employment, labor

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Additional Tags

council for economic education, econedlink, labor force, role of government, unemployment

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)