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Group Activity: Who Decides?

Group Activity: Who Decides?. Comparing how different economic systems respond to new economic challenges. Census Data Report: Number of Teenagers Increases. Demographic studies indicate that over the next five year the number of teenagers, especially ages 15-18, will increase dramatically.

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Group Activity: Who Decides?

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  1. Group Activity: Who Decides? Comparing how different economic systems respond to new economic challenges

  2. Census Data Report:Number of Teenagers Increases • Demographic studies indicate that over the next five year the number of teenagers, especially ages 15-18, will increase dramatically. • The greater the number of teenagers is expected to affect many products and groups including: schoolstransportation teachers fast food clothingjobs entertainmentcollege enrollment

  3. Command vs. Market Economies • What changes will be made (if any) in the goods and services produced? • What changes will be made in how these teenagers will be prepared to enter the workforce of their country?

  4. How Command and Market Economies Answer Basic Economic Questions

  5. News Events • 1. Floods and mudslides blanket the coast. Hurricane-force winds destroy homes. People are without food, shelter, and power. • 2. Health Care Crisis: The country is plagued by shortages of hospital rooms, equipment, doctors, and nurses. Hundreds of citizens wait months for heart surgery and cancer treatment. • 3. Mass teacher shortage nears. Fifty percent of state’s teachers are eligible for retirement in the next five years. • 4. Global warming is here. Latest federal report says temperatures rising. Sixteen of the last 20 years exceeded the annual average since 1895. Summer expected to be hottest on record. • 5. Last year’s hard-to-find, hot new toy sits on shelves this holiday season. This year, the Millennium Bear tops wish list for kids and adults.

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