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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...
How I Used NGPF to Prep My College Seniors for Life After Graduation
Apr 15, 2025 - While NGPF is written with high schoolers in mind, the curriculum and resources can easily be adapted to provide immense value for college students. As someone who transitioned from teaching at the high school level to the university level, here are examples of NGPF lessons successfully adapted into a workshop series for college seniors in their spring semester. MOVE: Your Money Values, MOVE: Your Cognitive Biases, and PLAY: The Bean Game College seniors are just a few short months...
Question of the Day: According to recent estimates, how much more could the iPhone 16 Pro Max cost as a result of the new tariffs on China?
Apr 15, 2025 - Is your iPhone about to cost an iFortune? Answer: $675(from $1,199 to $1,874) Questions: If a phone you wanted increased in price by a few hundred dollars, how would that affect your decision to buy it? How do rising prices on popular products like phones affect people's budgets and spending habits overall? Why might a company choose to raise prices instead of absorbing the extra cost themselves? Here are the ready-to-go slides for this Question of the Day that you can use in your...
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