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DATA CRUNCH: How Have Real Wages Changed Over Time?

In this activity, students will be able to:

  • Analyze and interpret data regarding the effect of inflation on earnings


Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

DATA CRUNCH: What Goods and Services Are Exported by the U.S.?

In this activity, students will be able to:

  • Analyze and interpret data regarding the volume of goods and services exported by the United States


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DATA CRUNCH: What Goods and Services Are Imported by the U.S.?

In this activity, students will be able to:

  • Analyze and interpret data regarding the volume of goods and services imported to the United States


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DATA CRUNCH: Which Careers Are the Biggest Gamble?

In this activity, students will be able to:

  • Analyze a scatterplot of earnings variabilty across careers.
  • Make an inference about what factors make a career have high variability in earnings vs low variability in earnings.


Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

DATA CRUNCH: Which Careers Are Growing Fastest?

In this activity, students will be able to:

  • Analyze the ten careers with the highest projected growth over the next ten years.
  • Explain why a small profession could have a high percentage growth without adding a large number of new employees.


Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

DATA CRUNCH: Which Benefits Are Most Valued By Job Seekers?

In this activity, students will be able to:

  • Analyze a bar graph of the benefits the workers say they most value.
  • Consider factors that might influence how much a worker values specific benefits.


Source: 4 Day Week

DATA CRUNCH: What Job Characteristics Matter Most to College Grads?

In this activity, students will be able to:

  • Analzye the characteristics that college graduates said were important to their first “good job”.
  • Compare responses for all graduates and recent graduates.


Source: Gallup

DATA CRUNCH: What’s The Relationship Between Education and Unemployment?

In this activity, students will be able to:

  • Analyze unemployment rates over the last 20 years, disaggregated by educational attainment.
  • Determine which groups experience the least variability in unemployment rates.
  • Consider the impact of COVID-19 on unemployment rates.


Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

DATA CRUNCH: Where Are Teens and Young Adults Working?

In this activity, students will be able to:

  • Analyze a pie chart of the most common industries where teens and young adults work.


Source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics
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