| |
| |
Chapter 1 | |
| |
| |
| |
Decisions, Decisions | |
| |
| |
| |
Make Decisions | |
| |
| |
| |
Understand Economic Systems | |
| |
| |
| |
Consumer's Role in the Economy | |
| |
| |
| |
Advertising and Consumer Decisions | |
| |
| |
| |
Be a Responsible Consumer | |
| |
| |
| |
Buying Technology Products: Let's Talk Tech | |
| |
| |
| |
Technology and Consumer Choice | |
| |
| |
| |
Move into Cyberspace | |
| |
| |
| |
Choose a Personal Computer | |
| |
| |
| |
Shop on the Net | |
| |
| |
| |
Protect Yourself on the Internet | |
| |
| |
| |
Consumer Protection: Rights, Responsibilities, Resolutions | |
| |
| |
| |
Consumer Rights and Responsibilities | |
| |
| |
| |
Government and Consumer Protection | |
| |
| |
| |
Deception and Fraud | |
| |
| |
| |
Resolve Consumer Problems | |
| |
| |
| |
Choose a Career: Get a Job | |
| |
| |
| |
Get to Know Yourself | |
| |
| |
| |
Explore Careers | |
| |
| |
| |
Apply for a Job | |
| |
| |
| |
Interview Successfully | |
| |
| |
| |
Prepare for the Future | |
| |
| |
| |
Taxes: How Much Income Will You Keep? | |
| |
| |
| |
Taxes and Your Paycheck | |
| |
| |
| |
File a Tax Return | |
| |
| |
| |
Taxes and Government | |
| |
| |
| |
Government Spending | |
| |
| |
| |
Budgeting: How Will You Use Your Money? | |
| |
| |
| |
Choose Financial Goals | |
| |
| |
| |
Track Income and Expenses | |
| |
| |
| |
Your Budget Worksheet | |
| |
| |
| |
Create Your Budget for the Year | |
| |
| |
| |
Banking Services: Where to Stash Your Cash | |
| |
| |
| |
How Banks Work | |
| |
| |
| |
Use Your Checking Account | |
| |
| |
| |
Electronic Banking | |
| |
| |
| |
Balance Your Checkbook | |
| |
| |
| |
Other Banking Services | |
| |
| |
| |
Saving: Plan for Financial Security | |
| |
| |
| |
Why Save? | |
| |
| |
| |
Savings Institutions and Account | |
| |
| |
| |
Save with Safety | |
| |
| |
| |
Simple and Compound Interest | |
| |
| |
| |
Investing: Prepare for Your Future | |
| |
| |
| |
Investing Basics | |
| |
| |
| |
How to Invest in Corporations | |
| |
| |
| |
How to Invest in Mutual Funds | |
| |
| |
| |
Research Investments | |
| |
| |
| |
Retirement and Other Investments | |
| |
| |
| |
Credit: You're in Charge | |
| |
| |
| |
What is Credit? | |
| |
| |
| |
How to Qualify for Credit | |
| |
| |
| |
Sources of Consumer Credit | |
| |
| |
| |
Credit Rights and Responsibilities | |
| |
| |
| |
Maintain a Good Credit Rating Chapter | |
| |
| |
| |
Budget Essentials: Food, Clothes, Fun | |
| |
| |
| |
Nutrition Facts | |
| |
| |
| |
Shop for a Healthful Diet | |
| |
| |
| |
Evaluate Clothes Choices | |
| |
| |
| |
Recreation and Travel | |
| |
| |
| |
Transportation: How Will You Get The re? | |
| |
| |
| |
Transportation Basics | |
| |
| |
| |
How to Choose a Car | |
| |
| |
| |
To Buy or Lease? | |
| |
| |
| |
The Car-Buying Process | |
| |
| |
| |
How to Maintain a Car | |
| |
| |
| |
Housing: A Place to Call Home | |
| |
| |
| |
Your Housing Options | |
| |
| |
| |
How to Rent an Apartment | |
| |
| |
| |
How to Buy a Home | |
| |
| |
| |
How to Furnish Your Home | |
| |
| |
| |
Automobile and Home Insurance: Sharing the Risk | |
| |
| |
| |
Insurance Basics | |
| |
| |
| |
Automobile Insurance | |
| |
| |
| |
Home Insurance Coverage | |
| |
| |
| |
Providers and the Claims Process | |
| |
| |
| |
Health and Life Insurance: Your Personal Security | |
| |
| |
| |
Health Insurance Basics | |
| |
| |
| |
Health Insurance Plans | |
| |
| |
| |
Choose a Health Plan | |
| |
| |
| |
Health Care Rights and Responsibilities | |
| |
| |
| |
Life Insurance | |
| |
| |
| |
Choose Services: When You Need Help | |
| |
| |
| |
Health Care Providers | |
| |
| |
| |
Legal Service Providers | |
| |
| |
| |
Government Assistance | |
| |
| |
| |
Global Economy: What It Means to You | |
| |
| |
| |
The Nature of International Trade | |
| |
| |
| |
U.S. Economy and World Trade | |
| |
| |
| |
Government and the Economy | |
| |
| |
| |
It's a Global Economy | |