Today's Article: Smuggled gasoline rescues Venezuelans
From: MSN.com
Readability Score: 10.8
How does the most oil-rich country run out of oil? By manipulating the price system!
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Today's Alternate Article: Deep-seafloor microbes 100 million years old
Readability Score: 8.6
Today's Article: Babysitter bidding wars
From: The Chicago Tribune
Readability Score: 10.4
What's the going rate for babysitters in your area? With schools closed and child care centers less appealing, Chicago families are looking at increases for qualified nannies and babysitters. Discuss supply and demand and the price system with a job that many teens may identify with.
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Today's Alternate Article: The psychology of kindness
Readability Score: 9.3
Today's Article: Unfurling the Waste Problem Caused by Wind Energy
From: NPR.org
Readability Score: 10.5
Green energy has gotten a lot of positive press lately. There are some costs, however, that not everybody understands. What can we do with old turbine blades that are more than 100 feet long? Read about the challenges, and some proposed solutions, in today's article. Then consider more unintended consequences from energy sources with Energy Solutions: Who Chooses?.
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Today's Alternate Article: Six Facts About Federal Debt
Readability Score: 8.0
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Today's Article: Israeli jeweler makes $1.5 million gold coronavirus mask
From: Associated Press
Readability Score: 11.3
A businessman has taken conspicuous consumption to new heights by ordering 'the priciest mask in the world.' An Israeli jeweler was happy to comply. Discuss how people spend money and the results of that spending. Then examine how money functions more fully in A World of Money.
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Today's Alternate Article: Oil Boom and Bust
Readability Score: 6.8
Today's Article: Supreme Court says eastern Oklahoma remains Native American territory
From: USA TODAY
Readability Score: 13.5
In a case that could have huge repercussions, Justice Neil Gorsuch sided with his more liberal cohorts on the Supreme Court to acknowledge continued Native American sovereignty in eastern Oklahoma. Learn more about the case and the issues at stake; then follow up with a discussion of land ownership and its relation to wealth in The Road to Prosperity.
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Today's Alternate Article: Grocery Shopping Changes
Readability Score: 8.1
