Presented to you in real time, discover the most accurate snapshot of our country's spending and debt. Numbers include individual debt per citizen, unemployment rates, Medicare spending, and the trade deficit. Watch and compare as the...

This lesson focuses on a variety of topics related to government spending, including the federal budget, mandatory versus discretionary spending, and government debt.

Interactive learning activity teaches how Congress allocates funds in the federal budget for programs such as Homeland Security, Defense, and Education.

Data Crunches feature one chart or graph followed by five scaffolded questions to guide students through analyzing the data and drawing conclusions. These sets of data help students understand financial concepts such as budgeting.

Learn all about budgeting including saving money and how to make and use a budget. Includes examples.

Through an interactive game, students share spending decisions they've made in the past and start to think about their spending habits in new ways.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following: Government spending; Taxation; Federal deficits and national debt; Using fiscal policy to fight recessions, unemployment, and inflation; Automatic stabilizers; Practical problems with...

This resource provides a series of papers from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

Defense spending in the second largest budgetary item in the U.S. national budget. This explains in general terms how the funds are allocated and provides a chart showing military spending since 2003.

Football-themed game tests your consumer-finance aptitude regarding interest, banking, credit, budgeting, saving, and spending.

This online simulation should give you a better feel of the trade-offs which policy makers need to make in creating federal budgets and dealing with deficits. The simulation comes in a short and long version and allows learners to see...

Overview on the complexities of the federal budgeting process and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

Use this resource to learn more about the Senate Budget Committee. It is divided into two parts. The first is a Republican website and the second is a Democratic website.

It is important for kids to learn how to manage their own money. This section of It's My Life-Managing Money focuses on spending and saving. Additional topics including money goals, expenses, savings, budgeting, and money tips are listed...

This is the text, audio, and video [47:07) of Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter's speech "Defense Priorities in an Era of Constrained Budgets" delivered at the 2013 Center for a New American Security Annual Conference.

As a part of the study of personal economics, students will research a career, costs of rent, insurance, food, transportation, etc. and prepare a monthly budget based on their research.

The amount of national debt is a hot button issue today. Compare our current national budget to years past to see when our country was in our deepest debt. By analyzing the following charts, students will see the evolution of U.S....

This site presents the budgeting process through a series of steps. This first page describes the first step, creating a spending plan of estimated expenses. This page also has a link to a downloadable spending plan that requires Acrobat...

The Center for the Study of the Presidency is a non-partisan and non-profit corporation. Inspired by Dwight Eisenhower's 1969 call for programs on the American Presidency for 'students old and young.'

For this lesson, students will identify why having a budget and keeping records of their spending and saving habits helps them make better financial choices.

It is never to early to begin saving money. Use this printable workbook to help young students learn concepts like the difference between want and need, the difference between saving and spending, what banks do, and how to budget to...

Students will apply their knowledge of economics to the analysis and interpretation of jokes, quotations, and cartoons in economics. Students will watch a Paul Solman video of an interview of Yoram Bauman, the Stand up Economist....

Visa provides a resource that teachers, parents, and students will all enjoy using. There are lesson plans here for all ages, as well as information about spending decisions, budgeting, and money management. Print your own play money,...

A workbook for children on how to save and manage their money, and how to create a budget.