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Issue 29 - The Economy

This issue includes many extras!

What exactly happened when Wall Street crashed in 2008? What led to the crisis? What exactly is a housing bubble? A bank bailout? A stimulus package? Using clear language accompanied by illustrations and graphics, the September 2009 issue of The Change Agent explains the roots of the crisis, tells how people are responding, gives voice to the unemployed, and tells inspiring stories of what we could do to create an economy that works for everyone. True stories by learners shed light on how people are coping, what they are doing to address financial stresses and injustices, and how they are staying hopeful. Use this issue of The Change Agent to teach math, grammar, writing, and critical thinking skills. Students will appreciate having these lessons rooted in relevant social issues and communicated in articles, essays, and cartoons that help demystify difficult economic concepts.

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Cover and Intro

Part 1 - Background - PDF

- A Disintegrating Economy

- How the Mortgage Bubble Burst Bubbles, Bailouts, Blockades

- Fighting Foreclosure

- Q&A with a Loan Underwriter

- Predatory Lending

- Homes Sit Empty; People Live in Tents

- Redecorating in a Recession

- Not Again! Changing Jobs...

- Feeling Desperate

- What is the Real Unemployment Rate?

- Economic Stimulus Package?

- Making Sense of Billions and Trillions

 

Part 2 - Learners Respond - PDF

- Failing Economy Strikes Immigrants Hard

- Lessons from Another Country

- Feeling the Economic Crisis for a Long Time

- Think Before You Buy

- Private Choices/Public Choices

- “Pinching Pennies...”

- Talking to Kids about Money

Part 3 - Causes and Exploring Inequality - PDF

- What Caused the Economic Crisis

- Few Regulations for Wall St.

- Many Regulations for the Poor

- Waiting in the Welfare Line

- Lining Up CEOs

- Tomato Pickers Fight for Pennies

 

Part 4 - Inspiration, Action, and Ideas - PDF

- The City That Ended Hunger

- Military Spending and the Economic Crisis

- GED Programs: Separate and Unequal

- Workers’ Right to Organize

- Losing My Job and My Health Insurance

- Worker Cooperatives

- Economic Crisis = New Beginning

- More Egalitarian = More Civilized

- Organized Democracy

Part 5 - Announcements and Back Cover

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