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Budget Hero
Game URL: marketplace.publicradio.org/features/budget_hero/
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Non-Profit: Sloan Foundation, CPB, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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Brief Description
Budget Hero seeks to provide a values- and fiscal-based lens for citizens to examine policy debates during this election year.
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Budget Hero seeks to provide a values- and fiscal-based lens for citizens to examine policy debates during this election year. Partisan messages tend to cloud the real issues at play during campaigns, and most candidates are loath to attach detailed financial impacts to solutions which make up their platform. Budget Hero provides an interactive experience involving policy options that have been extensively researched and vetted with non-partisan government and think tank experts to enable players to objectively evaluate candidates.
Target Audience: uring presidential campaigns, presidential candidates often talk about the policies they would enact once in office. Many voters decide who to cast their vote for based on these policy ideas. Yet the public rarely gets to see the cost of their proposals and the effect on the federal budget. Not so with Budget Hero. With Budget Hero, you can see how your policies and fiscal priorities match up with Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. To earn a candidate badge, you must select at least two thirds of that candidate’s policies.
Social Issues Addressed: economics,
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American Public Media has invested significant resources to ensure the budget model, policy impacts and pro/con arguments have been rigorously researched, expertly validated and represent non-partisan options. For more details behind our research, methodology, sources, as well as where to go to learn more, click on the Behind the #s tab.
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Email: budgethero@americanpublicmedia.org
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