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UM Economic Literacy

What do UM students really know about Economics? is a question I‘ve always wanted to answer since Economics plays an important role in everyone's life because we all are confronted daily with economic issues related to topics such as inflation, unemployment, economic growth, federal budget deficits, taxes, government spending and many others in different ways, mainly through news media by reading newspapers or by watching the news, but do college students really understand what each of this topics mean and how they affect the American economy? I think the answer is definitely in Economics education because they first need to study and understand the economy theory in order to apply it into real life and to be able to identify and describe the various economics phenomena that happen around them.
According to the national survey that was conducted by the National Center for Research in Economics Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1992,......

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