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High school students and the deficit
My wife teaches high school AP Government. She recently gave her students the assignment of balancing the federal budget using this simulation. Some of the results are instructive.
Posted by Craig Newmark on April 9, 2004 at 07:22 AM in Current Affairs, Economics | Permalink
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