Consumer Economics Provides Students with Practical Information

Junior Lauren Pearce sat at a computer looking up the prices of cars and housing on Craig’s List. But Pearce was not looking to buy anything. Instead, she was participating in a consumer economics class assignment to determine the cost of living right after high school.

“It’s almost like applied economics and what to do with it,” said teacher Troy Christenson. Consumer econ is basically all the “practical information that is necessary to function in the adult world.”

This is Christenson’s first year teaching an economics class, and he thinks that consumer is the most practical of all the economics classes to take. “It teaches everything that should be common sense to the average adult,” said Christenson