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Teacher Tip: FINE PRINT: W-4 Form
Apr 17, 2025 - Understanding the W-4 form is essential for anyone earning a paycheck. With NGPF's FINE PRINT: W-4 Form activity, students get a chance to dig into a real-world example. They'll analyze a sample W-4 and answer guiding questions that help them make sense of this important tax form and how it directly impacts how much income tax is withheld from your paycheck. Need a quick overview before bringing it to your classroom? In the Teacher Tip video, NGPF's Amanda Volz walks you through the...
FinCap Friday: Bias Behind Choices
Apr 17, 2025 - As humans, we constantly make judgments about people, opportunities, policies, markets & more. A 2021 report of generational banking, financial beliefs, and habits from BAI shares findings about Gen Z's biases. Learn more about it in this week's episode of FinCap Friday below: Click here to access the Kahoot quiz and discussion prompt. If you're short on time, try our simplified No Tech version containing embedded questions right in the slide deck. If you prefer embedding the quiz...
NGPF Podcast: Jasmine Rashid, Author of "The Financial Activist Playbook"
Apr 16, 2025 - Too often in the classroom, students learn how to manage money without much time to explore who designs the systems behind our economy. In this episode, Jasmine Rashid invites us to go deeper and reframe financial literacy—not just as a path to personal success, but as a tool for challenging inequality and advancing collective change. Jasmine Rashid, Author of "The Financial Activist Playbook" Jasmine’s background in peace and conflict studies and years of experience in the...
Question of the Day: How much has the median home price in the U.S. gone up over the past five years?
Apr 16, 2025 - They say home is where the heart is. Hearts must be expensive! Answer: $111,600 - a 39% increase! (from $286,800 in April 2020 to 398,400 in February 2025) Questions: Why do you think home prices have gone up so much in the last five years? What challenges might someone face when trying to buy a home today compared to five or ten years ago? If buying a home is getting harder, how might that change what adulthood or success looks like for your generation? Here are the ready-to-go...
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