As the Rolling Stones song says, "You can't always get what you want." So we make choices. Every day, governments and individuals choose how much money to spend and what to purchase. The January 2013 issue discusses opportunity costs and scarcity and how they effect our spending decisions.
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This is a remix of "Feeding the Hungry with Food Stamps Program". This resource is the beginning of a list of identifying areas in the resource that need additional resources to create a more pluralistic understanding of the ways our nation can feed all people. The original resource from Digital Public Library of America can be found here: https://www.oercommons.org/courses/feeding-the-hungry-with-food-stamp-programs
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Financial literacy - CashOnHand - Income - Alina - ASL/English
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Financial literacy - CashOnHand - Income - Alina - ASL/Spanish
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Browse the resources below to find useful tools and articles to help you gain a richer understanding of your financial health. Use the filters to explore by topic or type.
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Students will be able to explain some ways our brains trick us into making (or not making) purchase decisions. Class Time Needed: 20 minutes
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Students will play an online game called “SPENT” and experience what it’s like to live paycheck to paycheck. Game play will be followed with reflection questions and class discussion. Class Time Needed: Appox 45-60 min.
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Students will actively assess their career aspirations, critically evaluate and compare diverse career opportunities aligned with their aptitudes and interests, and strategically plan their career path while gaining insight into the income potential associated with their chosen careers.
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This is a collection of resources to assist with infusing Indigenous knowledge, culture and values into the Financial Literacy Module 2 The Decision-Making Process (core Introductory). Outcome: Apply decision-making strategies to various personal and community financial scenarios.
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This is a collection of resources to assist with infusing Indigenous knowledge, culture and values into the Financial Literacy Module 2 The Decision-Making Process (core Introductory). Some excellent resources include the NACCA Financial Workbook for Indigenous Women, The Money Stories series and the Native STAND booklet.
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The objective of this activity is for students to become familiar with common cognitive biases they may experience while making financial decisions. Students race to match definitions and examples of how biases show up in a personal finance context to the corresponding biases.
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This is an activity the goals of which are to facilitate team work; critical thinking; presentation skills in the area of cybersecurity and law. Students will be grouped into two teams. As a team, they will choose and analyze cases about online identity theft through the questions presented in the activity. They will present their analysis to the class.
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This 10 minute video will teach students what identify theft is and the many ways it happens in our society. The video also offers ways to deter, detect and defend against identity theft. This video will aid in the mastery of standard EPF. 10 (k)
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The familiar magnetic stripe credit cards used for decades in the United States are being phased out. Read about the new smart-chip credit cards, designed to reduce fraud and improve security, in the March 2016 issue of Page One Economics: Focus on Finance.
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Episode 4 of the Continuing Feducation Video Series offers five tips for protecting your online and financial security
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When you, for the most part, consider data fraud, you picture a decrepit criminal, a person who has stolen your data. In any case, this picture is normally inaccurate. Identity theft criminals are regularly a great deal more commonplace and can be your family, companions and even individuals from your congregation. Being wary and cautious with your data is fundamental to averting fraud.
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A number of successful applications have been reported in areas such as credit rating, fraud detection, database marketing, customer relationship management, and stock market investments. This course will examine methods that have emerged from both fields and proven to be of value in recognizing patterns and making predictions from an applications perspective. We will survey applications and provide an opportunity for hands-on experimentation with algorithms for data mining using easy-to- use software and cases.
Material Type: Full Course
A lot of what we do online requires having digital accounts. So how do we keep those accounts (and our personal information) secure? And what could happen if we don't? In this lesson, students will learn about the potential impacts of impersonation and identity theft, and review strategies to strengthen their cybersecurity skills.
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We talk with Shane Cox, a Simpson College associate professor of accounting, about the ways an average person views cyber security, what that person thinks about identity theft and how to protect personal information. Cox gives us an “average person” look at cyber security.
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Hardly a day goes by where data breaches and identity fraud don't make the headlines. In such a world, you may find yourself researching credit monitoring services.
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