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Sign up to receive your own updates This month with April 2018 Your guide to the people, places and events to explore this month. Money Matters April 15 is an infamous date circled in red on many Americans' calendars. It is the date when tax returns are due to the Internal Revenue Service and depending on whether you owe money or are due a refund, people have mixed emotions about giving the government their hard earned money in the form of taxes. On the one hand, the money we give to the government is used to educate our children, build roads, and keep our country safe among hundreds of other things. On the other hand, many Americans feel that the funds are sometimes misused or wasted on frivolous expenses or unregulated spending. We’re taking a closer look this month at American Capitalism, our economic model, and what went wrong to bring about the recent Great Recession and even further back during the Great Depression. American Capitalism Key People: John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Steve Jobs Primary Sources: The Gospel of Wealth by Andrew Carnegie Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1909), by John D. Rockefeller Project Idea: Showing How Capitalism Works The Great Recession Key People: George Walker Bush Barack Obama Related Information: Basic Economics Unemployment Primary Sources: U.S Census Bureau Report: Poverty in the United States After the Great Recession The Failure of Lehman Brothers Project Idea: The Great Recession Close to Home News Article: Wall Street Tumbles The Great Depression Key People: Herbert Hoover Franklin Delano Roosevelt Places/Events: Black Tuesday: The Crash of 1929 FDR and the New Deal Primary Sources: Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933 Trampling Out the Vintage (1939), by Charles Todd Project Idea: Managing Your Money See page 38 to view photographs of The Great Depression by legendary photographer Dorothea Lange Learn more about getting the most out of FreedomFlix by attending one of our upcoming online training sessions: Tuesday, April 10th 2018 10:00 to 11:00 am EST Monday, April 23rd 2018 3:00 to 4:00 pm EST We'd Love to Hear From You! How do you use FreedomFlix?  Share with us and you could be spotlighted in the next newsletter. We'll even send you a free gift as a special thank you! We look forward to hearing from you.

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