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Economics Budget Project

March 12, 2014 By Mr. D'Amato

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It is time to begin our Budget Project! Please down load the following material and save it in your folder. You will save all work in your folder – this way it is always accessible to you in class.

Your project is due  Friday, March 14, 2014 . It will no be accepted late – Friday is also the end of Marking Period 1.

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Budget Project :

Are you ready for the real world?  Complete the steps listed below to see if you are ready to move out and live on your own.  What are you doing NOW to prepare for TOMORROW?  Think about your wants and your needs and get excited – this is your life to live!

To make this as realistic as possible, choose 1 of 2 options:

1.  Choose a Career and Determine Your Income

Use the links listed below to gather information about a career that most interests you and then complete the “Get a Life” worksheet.

I  do not know  what I want to be when I grow-up.   — find a career here.

I  know  what I want to be when I grow-up.   — enter your chosen career in the search box.

Get a Life  – complete worksheet and print when finished.

2.  Breakdown Your Budget

Open the link to the budgeting spreadsheet to estimate expenses for your proposed budget; use income based on your chosen career from Step 1.  The right side of the page will give you directions for the spreadsheet – do not spend more than you earn and make this as realistic as possible.  Use the average percentages as a guide and just adjust accordingly if you need to stray from the normal amounts.  Nobody can tell you how you have to spend your money (except the government)… but I will not allow you to go into debt.

Working Budget Spreadsheet

3.  Find a Home

Assume that you will be living in the New York area.  Utilize the list of websites below to help you find a place to live.  If you cannot afford the apartment of your choice, roommates are always an option (you will need to adjust your spreadsheet so that you only pay your portion).  Print a copy or take a screen shot of the apartment page that details the specification for your new home.

http://www.realestate.com/

http://www.homes.com/

http://www.trulia.com/

Mortgage Calculator

Down payment is 20% of the total cost.

Find the information for the following and decide which mortgage fits your budget:

15-year mortgage term with a 3% interest rate

.20-year mortgage term with a 6% interest rate

30-year mortgage term with a 5% interest rate

4.  Find a Car

Part 1 — Congratulations, you have saved a total of $1,000 to put toward a car.  Let’s start shopping for a new or used car (depending on your budget).  You must purchase a car even in you have one or if someone is giving you a car.  Also, now that you have a job, you need reliable transportation – your car must cost at least $7,500. Print the information page that includes the cost of the car and any fun features.

Part 2 –Compute monthly payments for your car loan and print (or screen shot) the calculations page showing  2 options  your have in regards to term length.

Use the following information for your calculations:

Loan Amount = cost of the car you want to purchase minus the $1,000 you are using as a down payment (minimum is $7,500)

Interest Rate = 9.0%

Auto Loan Calculator:   https://www.chase.com/auto-loans/payment-calculator

5.  Analyze Your Budget

Is it all falling into place just yet?  Lets double check a few things and make sure you are ready for the real world.

Analysis of My Budget  – complete worksheet and print when finished.

6.  Hand-in all materials to your teacher (1-5 in order):  

*You should take screen shots of your home and car. There is a step-by-step guide for screen shots at the bottom of the post.

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Mr. D'Amato is the Assistant Principal of the Humanities Department (English, Foreign Language and Social Studies) at Williamsburg High School for Architecture and Design. He can be reached at 718-388-1260, extension 2043, or [email protected] .

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4 Budget Projects High School Students Will Have Fun Learning From

These are budget projects high school students will get excited about – both fun, and a great learning experience to understand money better..

Need a project-based way to teach your teens about managing a limited set of money?

group of four high school students working on project, text overlay

These budget projects for high school students will help them to self-discover some pretty important money lessons, such as:

And I’m starting the list off with my most favorite budget project!

Budget Projects for High School Students

We’re going to start off these budget projects with my very new one, a bill-paying budget project scenario.

Stick around for the other three, too!

Hint: you'll also want to check out my article on how to teach budgeting , from beginner to advanced levels.

1. Bill-Paying Budget Project

Bill paying is not something we’re born knowing how to do.

And it can feel like a slap in the face when you hit the real world and suddenly must be able to:

Most teenagers never deal with a monthly bill due date until they hit the real world – and at that point, slipping up can mean late fees, services turned off, lower credit scores, etc.

Why not give them a heads-up by working on a bill-paying budget project ahead of time?

Here’s a 30-day budget project, including a printable pack I created and am giving away for free for now (yes, I have plans on charging for this in the future – so go ahead and grab a copy!).

Step #1: Assign a Job + Bills with Due Dates

At the beginning of the month, assign your high school students one of four jobs. Based on the job they get, they’ll be assigned a list of bills with due dates, and a blank monthly money calendar.

monthly money calendar partly filled in with dates, plus bill due sheet for the horse trainer job position

Let your students know they’ll be paying bills over the course of the next month, according to when they are due. Also, tell the students there will be two paydays for the month, and that they’ll be paid pretend money on these days (here is free printable money for kids ).

They’ll take their bills sheet, and correctly fill in their monthly money calendar with each of the due dates, plus their paydays. They are then responsible for paying each of these bills by the due date (or face a late fee).

You can choose how to keep track of everything, but I would recommend a bill pay pocket chart.

Here’s how I set mine up to test everything out:

green and black pocket chart with pretend money on inside, student name and job token on outside

These two items were enough for a class of 30 students:

Step #2: Set Up a Bill Paying Station

You’ll need an area of the classroom to collect their money, and to sign-off on their bill-paying sheet to show they’ve paid.

The person in charge of this can be a teacher, teacher’s aide, or a student treasurer (you can switch out each week who fulfills this role). 

Choose what schedule the bill-paying station will be open, and use the printable bill pay chart to communicate times/dates.

bill paying station on a table with a bill pay station sign that says open from 7:30 - 8:00 a.m. pretend money, calculator, and student ledger filled in

Step #3: Run the Month-Long Simulation

Students are now in charge of paying their bills, as they become due (or ahead of time). The treasurer/banker is in charge of keeping the bill-paying station running, as well as filling in the one-sheet student ledger for when each person pays and how much they end up paying.

And someone else (perhaps the teacher) is in charge of paying the students on each of the two paydays.

At the end of the month, there is a set of reflection questions for students to fill out.  

Bonus: Tradeoffs and Prioritizing Money

To increase the “budgeting” part of this, you could come up with things that pretend money can buy.

This would mean that the students need to prioritize their money and make sure they have enough of it left to pay for each bill by its deadline.

For tight budgets, you can use privileges.

Could make things more interesting!

Hint: you'll also want to check out my article on how to teach budgeting .

2. Three-Budget-Scenarios Project

Have you checked out my article on sample budgets for an 18-year-old ?

One of the things I stress is a teen should create a budget for more than one scenario for their next step in life, since an older teen’s life opportunities can change so quickly.

Hint: you could show one of these free financial literacy movies for students as to why they need backup plans.

You can take your own high school students through this, as a project.

Step #1: Download a Teen Budget Worksheet

Choose a teen budget worksheet for your students (you can get mine, for free, below), and print out three copies each.

Step #2: Brainstorm Next-Step Scenarios in Teen’s Lives

Get your students to help you brainstorm some common (and not-so-common) next steps that can happen in a teen’s life.

Step #3: Pick 3 Scenarios to Create a Budget Around

Either pick three scenarios from the brainstormed list that every student in your entire class will work on, or let your students pick three different scenarios they’re thinking about living out after they graduate.

Hint: one of the scenarios can be to create a teen budget for their life right now. Then, they can choose their ideal scenario to budget around, and finally their backup plan scenario to budget around.

Help your students to first brainstorm the budget line items for each scenario.

For example, for a first-apartment scenario, they would want to include:

Step #4: Compare and Discuss Pros/Cons

Ultimately, you want your teen students to see how much they’ll need to earn in order to survive on each of three different scenarios.

You’ll then want to guide discussion on the pros and cons, from a financial perspective, to each of the three different paths post-high school.

3. End-of-Year Class Party Budget Project

Decide to throw an end-of-year party for your class, and let them not only handle most of the logistics, but also handle the budgeting for it.

You’ll need to have a budget for this, which can be gained from fundraising, donations, etc.

Have each student in the class be in charge of something, perhaps broken up by groups. Then, have the entire class be in charge of the big budget decisions.

Budget decisions to be made:

There are also some great budgeting decisions that need to be made at the group level.

Group budget decisions to be made:

4. Fun Budgeting Simulation

Did you know I have a free, fun budget activity PDF for high school students?

Students use a fun fortune teller to be assigned one of 4 avatars, with a backstory that includes:

They’re asked to fill in a budget worksheet based off of their brief. Then, they’re thrown a few budgeting scenarios where they need to think on their feet (based on the budget info they filled out) about how to handle it.

Things like:

It’s pretty fun!

I hope I’ve shown you some budget projects high school students can really get behind, because they’re at least a bit fun, they teach real life information, and they’ll make them think. I’d love to hear from you as far as how it goes!  

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3 Amazing Ideas for Economics Project for High Schoolers!

Are you a history or social studies teacher who is starting off the year teaching economics and is wondering,  “What is even economics?!” “How do I teach it?” “What are some ideas for economics project ?” “Where do I even start?” “How do you make economics fun?” I know the feeling and I’ve been there before. Teaching economics to high school seniors can seem like a daunting task, especially if you’re new to teaching this subject. But it is also an exciting time! Teaching economics is an awesome opportunity to teach students concepts and terms that they use in their daily lives! In fact, I found that economics turned out to be one of my most favorite subjects to teach! A great way to bring economics to life and make the content more accessible, fun, and relevant for high school students is through engaging projects for high school economics ! 

Economics projects help students understand the content better and allows them to put into practice economic terms and concepts. It also helps students realize that economics isn’t as difficult as it seems and a lot of the concepts used in economics are concepts they actually use in their everyday lives! If you’re not sure about where to start with creating economics projects or you’re wondering, “How do I even come up with economics project ideas for high school students?” You’ve come to the right place! I’ll go over some examples of economic projects that I’ve done with my own students! 

Economics Project Ideas for High School Number 1

When I first started teaching economics, I was thrown into the subject and was unfamiliar with it. I spent countless hours learning economic terms trying to figure out how to make economics meaningful to my students. Most of the time, I was just trying to figure out what economics even was. Needless to say, my first year teaching economics didn’t go so well. I used the textbook most of the time and didn’t show students how economics was something that they actually used in their everyday lives. Which actually brings me to the first example of projects for economics students that can be used in high school classrooms!

One Economics project that will resonate with students is to have students create a budget based on their lifestyle. Since economics is about making choices, this project has students practice economic terms, such as opportunity costs, trade-offs, and cost-benefit analysis as they decide whether or not they are able to support their lifestyle with the salary they are earning. 

Image that explains students can create a budget for a high school economics project.

How to set it up

The first step is to set a salary for students. For this project, I set their salary to $17 or $2,947 a month. Feel free to set their salary to whatever you would like. Next, students had to find an apartment and furnish their apartment based on their salary. Students had to show proof that the apartment existed and then had to find furniture for their apartment. They also had to take into account things like water and utility bills. Next, students had to decide their mode of transportation. After all, they have to get to and from work. Will they rent a car? Buy a car? Take the bus? The next step of this project was for students to decide how they would use their leisurely or free time. Will they go to the movies, order out, go to a concert? All of these activities cost money.

Students had to think about their housing cost, their transportation cost, and their free time. Do they have all the money they need to support their lifestyle? The last part of this project was for students to write a reflection based on their experience. In their reflection, they had to use the following economic terms: scarcity, choices, wants, needs, opportunity costs, benefits, and trade-offs. 

Project ideas for economics students for high school classes number 2

Another great way for students to get invested in economics is to create a project where students have to analyze how the coronavirus pandemic affected society. Many students felt the effects of the pandemic especially since schools were shut down. This project is still very much relevant to their lives. The economic terms involved in this project and that students should be familiar with are wants needs, trade-offs, opportunity costs, and cost-benefit analysis.

How to set up project

The first step of this project is for students to identify three objects or items that became scarce during the covid19 pandemic. After identifying the items that became scarce, students must describe how people, businesses, or the government reacted to these items being scarce. Next, students must explain why these scarce items suddenly became “valuable.” The next step of this project is for students to conduct a cross-benefit analysis on closing the economy. They must research 5 cons and 5 pros to closing the economy. Finally, students are asked to act as President of a country with 1 million people. Covid-19 has begun to spread and they must decide whether or not to close the economy. Students must make an argument explaining what they will do in this situation using evidence to support their claims. 

An image that explains possible economics project ideas could be for students to analyze how the coronavirus pandemic affected society.

Examples of economic projects for high school students number 3

Another project that can be used to gain students interests in economics is for students to create their own Music Festival Lineup. With this project, students should be familiar with the concepts of demand, law of demand, determinants of demand, supply, law of supply, equilibrium price, shortages, and surplus. Students enjoyed this project because they are interested in music and know about popular musical festivals.

For the first part of this project, students will decide on 3 musicians or musical groups that they would want to headline their festival. However, students must keep in mind that the musicians they choose should be musicians that are in high demand. To figure out which musicians are in high demand, students must do some market research and create an evidence-based argument for their act. Students also make a Festival Poster to advertise their Music Festival. Next, students must conduct a survey to determine at which prices their classmates would be willing and able to purchase tickets to their musical festival. After conducting a survey, students will then plot their data into a graph to determine the equilibrium price. After finding the equilibrium price, students write a reflection where they discuss the equilibrium price, shortages, and surpluses. 

An image that explains possible projects for economics students could be for students to create their own Musical Festival Lineup.

These are all projects I have used in my classroom! If you don’t want to make them yourself, feel free to check out my store ! They have helped to make economics enjoyable to teach and have increased student buy-in in my economics classes! Teaching economics doesn’t have to be scary. A project-based approach and with these Ideas for economics projects for high school students , teaching economics  is manageable and you’ll find joy in watching students have fun!

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5 Top Personal Finance Projects for High School

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5 Top Personal Finance Projects for High School

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Coming from a family of educators, Brad knows both the joys and challenges of teaching well. Through his own teaching background, he’s experienced both firsthand. As a writer for AES, Brad’s goal is to help teachers empower their students through listening to educators’ concerns and creating content that answers their most pressing questions about career and technical education.

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As a high school personal finance instructor, finding the perfect projects to use with your students can be challenging. Choosing suitable personal finance projects is critical to ensuring your students understand the differences between business and personal finance and apply what they’ve learned to become good money managers.

But where can you find personal finance projects? And how do you fully cover the topic of personal finance in your curriculum?

Thankfully, there are some great projects available to help teachers cover this important topic in ways that will enrich their students.

In this article, we’ll look at five of the best personal finance projects for high school students:

When you’ve finished reading, you’ll have a more complete picture of the projects out there and if one or more may work in your classroom.

1. Finance and Capital Markets from Khan Academy

Khan Academy founder Sal Khan made a name for himself in the early days of web-based education, offering free educational resources that learners can readily access through the internet. 

Today, Khan Academy continues to offer high-quality educational resources for students and adult learners alike. One Khan Academy course that’s particularly relevant to a high school personal finance class is the Finance and Capital Markets course .

The Finance and Capital Markets course covers these related topics:

Students will find a series of instructional videos that explain each concept and related subconcepts in more depth. All of the videos include closed captioning and are fully accessible, so you’ll be able to use them with all of your students. Plus, since the material is readily available on the internet, it can be assigned as homework just as easily as it could be an in-class assignment.

While the videos alone aren’t enough to teach an entire course, the material is sufficient to introduce students to each subject and spawn further class discussion. Plus, you can use it to help learners review before their cumulative exams.

How Much Does Khan Academy Cost and Who Is It For?

Khan Academy and its resources have always been free for teachers, students, and anyone who wants to learn.

It’s great for teachers who want students to receive interactive video content covering many personal and business finance topics. It’s also a great resource to use in a flipped classroom since students can easily watch the videos before class and come prepared to discuss the main concepts.

Khan Academy isn’t for teachers who want to avoid large amounts of video content or who aren’t covering some of the more complex topics like options and derivatives. 

2. Personal Finance, Budgeting, and Planning Monthly Project from the Classroom Sparrow

Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) is a popular website where educators can buy, sell, and share curriculum and instructional materials with their peers.

The Classroom Sparrow is a reputable seller on Teachers Pay Teachers who’s created various quality resources for students to learn business and career readiness subjects.

The Personal Finance, Budgeting, and Planning Monthly Project is an interactive assignment that helps students master the fundamentals of basic personal budgeting. Throughout the project, students identify their “needs” and “wants” and come to understand the choices they’ll face in living on their own.

This personal finance project includes these resources:

The project is designed for students in grades 8-12 and features 35 pages of content. Teachers will have enough resources to cover about three weeks of classes when used in its entirety.

How Much Does the Classroom Sparrow Project Cost and Who Is It For?

The Classroom Sparrow’s Personal Finance, Budgeting, and Planning Monthly Project costs $9.75. This is a fair price considering that you can use the material over several classes.

Another option is the Real-World Budgeting & Finance: Personal Finance Lessons & Activities bundle, which costs $22.99 and includes seven different products. This bundle is more expensive, but perhaps better worth the price, with the additional content it includes.

Overall, the project is a good fit for teachers looking to implement a simple, straightforward exercise alongside other personal finance lessons. It won’t take the place of a comprehensive curriculum, but it will cover all the basics of the budgeting aspect of personal finance.

3. Economics Personal Finance Budgeting Project from Mrs. P's Interactive Classroom

Mrs. P’s Interactive Classroom is another prominent seller on Teachers Pay Teachers. Mrs. P offers an Economics Personal Finance Budgeting Project that helps high school students learn about the potential costs that one should consider when establishing a realistic budget.

The project includes 11 assignments that each handle a different aspect of budgeting to help students prepare for their futures:

The materials come with PowerPoint and Google Slides versions, and students will need access to Google Sheets to use the included budgeting template.

Mrs. P’s project is intended for learners in grades 10-12 and includes 17 pages of content. This should be enough cover between two and two and a half weeks of classes.

How Much Does Mrs. P's Project Cost and Who Is It For?

This particular project is offered as a standalone download on Teachers Pay Teachers for $7.00.

As a budget-centric project, it’s a solid option for teachers who want to stress to students the importance of considering all financial obligations. Since it’s so easy to overlook things like transportation costs and unexpected bills, this project does a really good job of ensuring students understand their whole financial picture.

However, teachers who want a project that doesn’t focus so heavily on budgeting may favor a more comprehensive resource.

4. Personal Finance Simulation Semester Project from Business Girl

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Business Girl is a prolific provider of business education resources through Teachers Pay Teachers.

She offers many different projects on personal finance, but her Personal Finance Simulation Semester Project is a real standout. This substantial, extensive project helps students understand budgets and financing, as well as many other elements of sound financial literacy .

Throughout the semester-long simulation, students research three career choices and identify short, medium, and long-term SMART goals. Then they research investments and set up a hypothetical investment portfolio. For each asset, learners will need to explain the potential risk and return.

In addition to investments, the Personal Finance Simulation features instruction on these topics:

The project includes a Google Slides presentation, a teacher’s guide, and a grading rubric. It’s appropriate for high schoolers in grades 9-12 and has 28 pages of content. Keep in mind, however, that this project revolves around research and is designed for an entire semester.

How Much Does Business Girl's Project Cost and Who Is It For?

Business Girl’s Personal Finance Simulation lists at just $4.99. This is an excellent value for teachers who want to implement the entire multi-step project.

Teachers who want more than just this one project can also acquire the Personal Finance Course Bundle with four projects for $18.99 or the Personal Finance Mega-Bundle for $89.99. The Mega-Bundle includes 51 projects, however, which may be more than most teachers need.

Since the Business Girl simulation project takes a different approach, it’s worth considering if you want to introduce your high schoolers to things like retirement accounts and credit card debt. The inclusion of a career search element and identifying SMART goals means this could double as a college and career readiness project .

On the other hand, some teachers may find that covering so many topics lead to a lack of focus in their curriculum. It’s also not best for teachers who don’t have the class time to commit to a semester-long simulation.

5. Personal Finance Project Ideas from Study.com

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Study.com is a subscription-based website for teachers, students, tutors, and families to access curriculum materials in various subjects, including business and career readiness.

One of their Personal Finance Project ideas is a Responsible Student Loans Project. For this project, students complete three main steps:

The project is simple but straightforward and can help high schoolers hone their research skills. Study.com offers other projects on this page, such as a Budget Project, but you’ll need to become a subscriber to access the complete list of projects.

How Much Does Study.com Cost and Who Is It For?

Study.com is a subscription service that includes access to a broad range of resources that may or may not be relevant to your personal finance class. A Classroom Teacher subscription to Study.com costs $29.99 per month after a free trial and includes student access.

These resources work best if you are already a Study.com subscriber or think you’ll receive enough value from their other resources to justify a monthly cost. Alternatively, teachers who are only looking for a single project to add to an existing curriculum are better off using a less expensive, standalone solution.

Engage Your Students with a Full Personal Finance Curriculum

Whether you’re focused on effective budgeting or want to include career choices and other financial impact areas, there are many great resources out there that can keep your students engaged and learning.

However, many teachers need more than a few projects to ensure their students have mastered finance fundamentals.

If this is the case for you, consider the Personal Financial Literacy module from AES. This personal finance learning module provides teachers and students with nine hours of lessons and projects and forms an integral part of the Business&ITCenter21 learning system.

Business&ITCenter21 also includes many business and career readiness topics, including Economics, Banking and Finance, and more.

Explore the Personal Financial Literacy module to discover if it’s right for you and your students.

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The Council for Economic Education is excited to announce the winners of the 15th Annual National Economics Challenge, a rigorous academic competition putting students’ economic skills and knowledge to the ultimate test. Hosted by CNBC Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman for the second year in a row, the final quiz bowl round was televised live on CNBC’s Power Lunch and featured on CNBC’s Nightly Business Report.

Earlier this week, Mounds View High School from Arden Hills, Minnesota took home the top prize for the Adam Smith Division, (for advanced placement, international baccalaureate and honors students) and Homestead High School from Cupertino, California was named the winner of the David Ricardo Division (for students who have only taken a single-semester economics course) in the three-day competition, hosted by the Council for Economic Education.

Over 10,500 students from 41 states competed in CEE’s National Economics Challenge, which applies the excitement of an athletic competition to academic excellence. The finals included written exams and a critical thinking round and culminated in a riveting “quiz-bowl” competition at The Crosby Hotel in SoHo.

The winners correctly answered questions covering a wide range of topics, from micro- and macro-economic priorities to international and current events. Adding to the excitement, students also had the chance to answer guest video questions provided by Ben Bernanke, former Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. Some of those brainbusters included questions like these:

With constant opportunity costs, in what direction does a production possibilities frontier slope AND what is the shape of the production possibilities frontier? (Answer: Downward Sloping and Linear)

What is the effect in a market of a price ceiling that is above the current market price? (Answer: Trick question—there is no effect.)

A reel of highlights from CNBC’s broadcast can be viewed here .

Here’s the complete list of winners:

Adam Smith Division (AP, IB and honors students) First Place: Mounds View High School/Arden Hills, Minnesota Abraham (Xingliang) Chen; Emily Ruan; Samuel Rush; Jacob Weightman Coach: Martha Rush

Second Place: Carmel High School/Carmel, Indiana Robert Greaser; Kevin Mi; Joe Philleo; Brendan Yap Coach: Michelle Foutz

Third Place:Lexington High School/Lexington, Massachusetts Raymond Gong; Ilise Martel; Soumya Ram; David Wu Coach: William Cole

Fourth Place: The Harker School/San Jose, California Aaron Huang; Ashwath Thirumalai; Steven Wang; Leo Yu Coach: Samuel Lepler

David Ricardo Division (Single semester general economics students) First Place: Homestead High School/Cupertino, California Steven McDonald; Richard (Tianrui) Chen; Kazu Kogachi; Erik Yang Coach: Christy Heaton

Second Place: Carmel High School/Carmel, Indiana Samantha Bleykhman; Pranav Sriram; Allen Zhang; Ruth Zhong Coach: Michelle Foutz

Third Place: Iolani High School/Honolulu, Hawaii Alisa Boland; Kelsey Ann Kimura; Vincent Lee; Nathan Lee Coach: Richie Kibota

Fourth Place: Charter School of Wilmington/Wilmington, Delaware Eshan Agarwal; Shrayus Sortur; Rohith Venkataraman; Akash Singh Coach: Michael Kiersznowski

About the Council for Economic Education

The Council for Economic Education is the leading organization in the United States that focuses on the economic and financial education of students from kindergarten through high school - and we have been doing so for over 65 years. We carry out our mission by educating the educators: providing the curriculum tools, the pedagogical support, and the community of peers that instruct, inspire, and guide. All resources and programs are developed by educators, and delivered by our national network of affiliates. Our goal is to reach and teach every child. Each year CEE’s programs reach more than 55,000 K-12 teachers and over 5 million students across the United States.

For further information about the Council for Economic Education go to: http://www.councilforeconed.org .

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The Biden administration included a major gift to the Bay Area in its Thursday federal budget proposal: $500 million to build BART through San Jose, a vital revenue boost to a project racked by escalating cost projections.

The funding would bring the 6-mile extension, which is supposed to be finished by 2034, a major step closer to reality, although the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority still needs to close a multi-billion dollar gap between project costs and available funding.

“It’s definitely significant,” said Carolyn Gonot, VTA’s general manager. “There were only a handful of projects that got very large sums in the president’s budget.”

The $9.3 billion extension would have BART trains whizzing underneath downtown San Jose and into Santa Clara. But the cost and time estimates have doubled since 2018, and more recently the VTA turned to Washington asking for a historic $4.6 billion federal grant. Previously, the Federal Transit Administration had agreed to fund up to $2.3 billion, as part of a letter of intent issued in October 2021.

In addition to providing another $500 million, Biden’s budget advances the BART extension through a separate funding category called New Starts, necessary if it is to receive yet more money through the federal process.

If those proposals pass muster with Congress, the Santa Clara County project would be among the biggest winners among transit projects in the current budget cycle. The $14.6 billion Gateway rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey landed $700 million in Thursday’s budget proposal, and New York City’s Second Avenue Subway grabbed $496 million.

But even as Washington goes on a spending blitz, ballooning budgets at the VTA and around the country mean taxpayers are seeing far less transit than expected from the historic 2021 infrastructure funding bill.

“There is some inflation panic and materials panic and labor panic,” said Eric Goldwyn, a New York University professor who studies transit project costs. “So we are getting less for every dollar we put out there.”

There remain several hurdles for VTA to secure the federal funds, including congressional approval of Biden’s proposal. Republicans, who took control of the House of Representatives in January, previously dubbed the BART extension “Nancy Pelosi’s Silicon Valley subway” and sought to restrict funds.

The VTA also needs to line up other state funding sources to unlock the matching federal dollars. BART needs another $375 million from a state transit program that Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to slash due to California’s looming budget shortfall.

Speaking to reporters, Nuria Fernandez, the Federal Transit Administration head, said Washington’s contribution, if approved by Congress, will be made available only if the agency secures a final construction agreement.

The VTA plans to secure the agreement in 2024 after tying together all the funding streams. Gonot has vowed that the agency will not pursue another local ballot measure to fund the project.

Nuria Fernandez, then general manager of the Valley Transportation Authority, boards a train at the Berryessa BART station in North San Jose for a ride up to the Milpitas BART station in this 2020 file photo. Fernandez, now a federal transit administrator in the U.S. Department of Transportation, will be a keynote speaker at a Sept. 10 environmental summit on green transportation hosted by by local Rotary groups. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group)

“Those will be appropriated dollars that would remain available to them, but they could not access (the funds) until there is a construction grant that has been signed,” said Fernandez, who oversaw the BART extension as VTA general manager until early 2021, before moving to Washington.

If completed by 2034, the BART extension would be up and running 34 years after voters first approved the project.

While funding remains tricky, the project is barreling ahead. The VTA is looking to seize rights to dozens of properties where the tunnel will burrow underground. The agency is also in the process of ordering a $460 million drill , known as a tunnel-boring machine, to mine one of the world’s largest subway tunnels.

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