Interactive Quiz: Think You Know Our Nation’s Budget Problems?

Find out much you know about balancing the federal budget with this quiz from Michael Linden, Jordan Eizenga, and Sarah Ayres.

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Recent polls suggest that Americans are woefully in the dark when it comes to balancing the federal budget. Test your budget IQ by taking the Center for American Progress’s quiz below.

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Michael Linden

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Interactive Quiz: Think You Know Our Nation’s Budget Problems?