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EverFi Teaches Young People About Money Through Online Games.

While I am not a proponent of encouraging students to spend even more time playing games online, even I might be convinced by what these guys have come up with. EverFi is an online financial literacy education platform/game that is designed to teach Generation Y about being financially responsible. From CNN:

EverFi offers a five-hour series of Web tutorials that let students explore real-world settings, from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to a used-car dealership, while absorbing lessons about saving money, earning interest and managing debt. As students acquire new skills, the software encourages them to play a SimCity-style game in which they control characters’ spending habits, reaping the rewards of good choices and suffering the consequences of bad ones.

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Need Help Talking To Kids About Financial Literacy? Try These Free Classes.

This may be a surprise for some, but teens are listening and they are worried about the economy. Not only are they watching their parents and stories on the news, but teens are feeling the effects first hand, and they’re talking about it. Junior Achievement and The Allstate Foundation conducted a poll of U.S. teenagers to gauge their thoughts on the economy, with some surprising statistics:

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  • More than 50 percent say they talk about the economy with their friends.
  • 53 percent of teens surveyed say they’re choosing activities that cost less money.
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Our Kids’ Financial Futures Are At Stake.

The sky is falling. We hear about it every day. The stock market is plunging, the housing bubble has exploded, and the list of doom and gloom goes on and on. How did we get here? We consider ourselves a bright nation. Why then, didn’t we see this coming? Did we get too greedy? Did we lose our common sense? Perhaps it was a little of both. What is important is what we have learned from our mistakes and the knowledge we pass down to our children to help them avoid a similar fate.

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Cheese Sandwiches For Kids Whose Parents Failed To Pay Their Lunch Tab.

What do you guys think about this? It’s been a pretty huge story here in New Mexico, and while on one hand I understand what and why the school system is doing it (we have no money), I cannot help but hate the fact that the kids are being punished for the parents lack of payment…

Faced with mounting unpaid lunch charges in the economic downturn, Albuquerque Public Schools last month instituted a “cheese sandwich policy,” serving the alternative meals to children whose parents fail to pick up their lunch tab.

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Don’t Forget To Ask M-Network Your Financial Questions!

Don’t forget to take advantage of the new feature from all of us at the M-Network called “Ask The M-Network“. This new feature allows our readers to submit personal finance questions to any of the M-Network members using our contact forms. (Here is my contact form) Your question will be answered by several M-Network members behind the scenes and then published within a few days as a post on the blog where you submitted the question. So you ask a question via my contact form, I talk it over with the other members, and I post the answer here a few days later…Pretty cool, right?

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