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Where does each party stand when it comes to fiscal management? In this lesson, students will analyze each major political party's platform to better understand their approaches to the federal budget and national debt.  Students will be challenged to apply this understanding by p…

Help your students to understand how the federal budget is established using CEE's animated video Overview of the Federal Budget Process. The video is based upon the Overview of the Federal Budget Process handout supplementing Understanding Fiscal Responsibility lessons and provides an intro…

In this lesson, updated with 2023 statistics, students learn about the challenges of the federal debt and play the Fiscal Ship simulation.

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated creations. Encourage your students to create a caption, add thought and/or speech bubbles, and place concept labels and clip art stickers to reinforce or change th…

Use this Image Annotation Tool to enable your students to creatively comment on political cartoons, and to share their annotated creations. Encourage your students to create a caption, add thought and/or speech bubbles, and place concept labels and clip art stickers to reinforce or change th…

In this personal finance activity, students will use TurboTax to learn and actively file taxes.

Students will explore graphs to analyze the impact of different tax structures on families.

In this personal finance lesson, students will use an IRS Form 1040 to calculate personal income tax.

In this personal finance lesson, students will learn about the basic principles of personal income tax.

Students discover that all elements of a budget are essentially spending on goods and services.