Economy
The international economy, shaped by governments, businesses and other actors, touches the lives of everyone in the world. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Economy” feature reporting that covers business, workers and the impact of global capitalism on people’s lives. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on the economy.
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Lesson Plans
The Country a U.S. Corporation Left Behind
Students explore the impacts of the century-long relationship between Alcoa, an American corporation, and Suriname. They then debate the terms of Alcoa's exit from the country.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Stephanie Strasburg Takes Over @PulitzerCenter Instagram with Project in South America
Grantee Stephanie Strasburg has taken over the @PulitzerCenter Instagram account to share her work...
May 1, 2017 -
Pulitzer Center Update
Hunter College: Global Impact of Refugee Crisis
How do we define a new paradigm in a world with so many refugees? And what are the economic and...
May 1, 2017 -
Education Resource
Meet the Journalist: Kai Schultz
Kai Schultz reports that far-reaching corruption is threatening to topple the Maldives's fragile...
![Nelson Adose Martines, 59, emerges from harvesting a cassava root by his family's shacks off of Suriname's Afobaka Road. Martines is part of the generations of Saamaka who still feel the effects of a 1964 government resettlement that moved thousands of residents from villages inundated by Alcoa's Brokopondo Reservoir. "We live off farming, farming is how we eat, how we live," said Martines. "But because a lot of villages relocated, we had to share these resources with more people." Image by Stephanie…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-23-17/4-saamaka01.jpg.webp?h=dfba89c9&itok=W86HMYdU "Nelson Adose Martines, 59, emerges from harvesting a cassava root by his family's shacks off of Suriname's Afobaka Road. Martines is part of the generations of Saamaka who still feel the effects of a 1964 government resettlement that moved thousands of residents from villages inundated by Alcoa's Brokopondo Reservoir. "We live off farming, farming is how we eat, how we live," said Martines. "But because a lot of villages relocated, we had to share these resources with more people." Image by Stephanie Strasburg. Suriname, 2017.")
!["Zero Harm" was the goal at Alcoa's closed Coermotibo Operation near Moengo. Image by Stephanie Strasburg. Suriname, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-23-17/2-moengoplantshuttered.jpg.webp?h=dfba89c9&itok=wHJI_vgw ""Zero Harm" was the goal at Alcoa's closed Coermotibo Operation near Moengo. Image by Stephanie Strasburg. Suriname, 2017.")
