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
Exploring Other Countries
In this lesson, students use the Pulitzer Center website to research a specific country before giving an oral presentation.
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About two decades too late, the Internet is cautiously breaking Cuba's spell of isolation. What...
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Pulitzer Center Update
This Week: Venezuela Towards Collapse
Venezuela on the Brink Nadja Drost and Bruno Frederico After years of recession and inflation, the...
June 13, 2017 -
Lesson Plans
The World's Most Toxic Town
Use reporting on Zambia’s lead mines by Damian Carrington and Larry C. Price to explore the causes, effects and responses to toxic lead poisoning.
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Pulitzer Center Update
Gender Lens: Property Rights—What’s Land Got to Do With It?
During the Property Rights panel at the Pulitzer Center Gender Lens Conference on June 3, 2017, the...
June 12, 2017
![This minibus, probably a secondhand American school bus, is owned by transportation firm Calfia. Note that vehicles like these, regardless of owner, are locally known as "calafias." Image by Patrick Reilly. Mexico, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-13-17/img_0107.jpg.webp?h=a0b1ae2e&itok=gheRXrIq "This minibus, probably a secondhand American school bus, is owned by transportation firm Calfia. Note that vehicles like these, regardless of owner, are locally known as "calafias." Image by Patrick Reilly. Mexico, 2017.")
![Still image from Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico's PBS NewsHour video "Dire conditions drive growing anti-government opposition in Venezuela." Venezuela, 2017.](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-13-17/vz_violinist.jpg.webp?h=ab94c40b&itok=MKgQR2V- "Still image from Nadja Drost and Bruno Federico's PBS NewsHour video "Dire conditions drive growing anti-government opposition in Venezuela." Venezuela, 2017.")
