What goes into accounting the United States budget deficits and its net operating costs? How do shifts in the economy affect government spending? How is increasing interest projected to affect our federal debt in the future? This video tackles these complex questions using graphs, charts, and instruction to explain these economic concepts.

Concepts

economic indicators, the economy, the united states economy, the federal budget, deficits, the national debt

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Additional Tags

federal deficit, federal debt, social studies

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Classroom Considerations

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Speaker does a great job illustrating how to analyze data presented in a chart or graph and consider all the necessary details 

Cons

• There is a lot of information provided in this video, and you may wish to show the video in class in order to immediately assess, discuss, and explain

Common Core

SL.9-10.5 SL.11-12.5 RH.11-12.7