includes lesson plans, tutorials, and role playing simulations to help students from middle school up learn about dozens of topics — taxpayer rights, the history of taxes, indirect taxes, progressive and proportional taxes, exemptions, dependents, education credits, earned income credit, how taxes influence behavior, the politics of taxes, your first job, and more. It also includes 14 self-paced modules offering a step-by-step approach to tax preparation. (Internal Revenue Service)
is designed to help teachers and students find summer research opportunities in biomedical laboratories that are supported by the National Institutes of Health. The site lets you search by zip code for opportunities near you. (National Institutes of Health)
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27 Apr 2009Article about the 2009 Mexico and U.S. flu outbreak of a new swine flu strain of Influenza A virus subtype H1N1.
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26 Apr 2009Secretary Arne Duncan announced that nearly $85.4 million is available for South Dakota under the Recovery Act to save teaching jobs and drive education reform.
Understandtheplan.com is a website that lets us, the taxpayers, show how the money should be spent from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
There will be ways to share, comment, and search stories from all parts of the world. We want to show our government how the economic crisis and this recovery program is effecting all of us.