Identify the goals of economic policy

Learning Activities

The learning activities for this section include:

• Reading: Economic Policy
• Reading: Federal Spending: Where Does the Money Go?
• Video: Stop Freaking out About the Debt
• Reading: Vox Cards: The Fed and the 2008 Financial Crisis
• Reading: Vox Cards: Federal Taxes
• Video: Wealth Inequality in America
• Video: How Wealth Inequality Is Dangerous for America
• Video: The Most Important Chart of 2014
• Video: Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson on Engineered Inequality
• Video: The Scariest Chart in America
• Video: Banned TED Talk: Nick Hanauer
• Video: Fred Block: The Tenacity of the Free Market Ideology
• Video: Mariana Mazzucato: The Entrepreneurial State
• Video: End This Depression Now!

Take time to review and reflect on each of these activities in order to improve your performance on the assessment for this section.