Economics

Homework due Monday, November 2

Economics in Our Times, pp 184-187

Learning Check p. 187, 1 and 3.  Write your answers.

Complete the Minimum Wage and Teen Unemployment assignment.  Will be collected and graded

Terms:

      global competition

      downsizing

Economics

Homework due Friday, October 30

Economics in Our Times, pp 178-184

Terms

      closed shop                                                                       

      union shop

      Taft-Hartley Act                          

      right to work laws

      strike

Economics

Homework due Thursday, October 29

Study for midterm.  Bring a calculator and at least two pens with blue or black ink to the exam.

Economics

Homework due Wednesday, October 28

Economics in Our Times, pp 170-173, 177

Learning Check p. 177, #s 1-5.  Write your answers.

Terms:

      wage rate

      minimum wage law

Bring in WSJ editorial, “Acting Up Against the Minimum Wage”