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The Minnesota Home Ownership Center is the state's leading independent, non-profit provider of information and resources aimed at helping Minnesotans begin, and maintain, home ownership. Since 1993 we have worked to achieve our mission by empowering a network of more than 50 non-profit, public and tribal organizations to provide education and counseling services to potential home buyer and home owners working to sustain their mortgage.

Web Sites

• Recovery.gov is a website that lets you, the taxpayer, figure out where the money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going -- to which states, to which congressional districts, even to which Federal contractors.
• Stimulus Watch, "StimulusWatch.org was built to to help the new administration keep its pledge to invest stimulus money smartly, and to hold public officials to account for the taxpayer money they spend. We do this by allowing you, citizens around the country with local knowledge about the proposed "shovel-ready" projects in your city, to find, discuss and rate those projects."
• Minnesota's Budget Shortfall, a Minnesota Public Radio Idea Generator about the state's budget.
• Try Budget Hero, American Public Media's interactive game that gives you a chance to balance the Federal budget.

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