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What’s The Tooth Fairy Paying These Days?
Ok, maybe your high school students have lost all their baby teeth, but they might be curious about this…who knew that someone actually tracked this stat. Since my six year old son recently lost his...
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Audio Resource: Honey, Who Shrunk our Groceries?
From Marketplace: http://www.marketplace.org/node/152972/player/storyplayer Some questions to ask students prior to listening to this 5 minute clip: Why do food manufacturers find it easier to shrink...
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WebQuest: What’s New With Cell Phone Plans?
Tectonic shift occurring with cell phone plans. Here are a few stories that your students could read and summarize (or you can send them out to the web to look for recent stories on this trend also)...
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Interactive: What Interest Rate Are People Paying On Their Credit Cards?
Answer: Lots of different interest rates… From NPR.org (if you go to the link, there is a interactive with a slider bar that allows you to see how the distribution of interest rates has changed from...
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Audio Resource: What’s Wrong With Dow Jones Index?
18 minute Planet Money podcast from this spring. Provides students with a better understanding of how the Dow Jones index is calculated and constructed and its shortcomings vs. S&P500 and Wilshire...
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Question of the Day: What’s the Average FICO Score Nationally?
Answer (from Fair Isaac): 695 Nice chart too, showing percentage of consumers within certain credit card bands: The obvious question is why have credit scores been rising..the answer courtesy of NY...
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NGPF Podcast: Tim Talks With Dottie Vollmer, Peer Financial Educator at...
Thank you to Dottie Vollmer, a Peer Financial Educator, for sharing her expertise with our educator community in this recent podcast (duration: 17 minutes). Dottie counsels college students as a...
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Chart: What Are The 20 Best Jobs For Future?
From WSJ: Additional details: If you’re trying to find a career path that might actually have a decent income and a future, you may want to consider becoming a physician assistant, an actuary or...
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Which Financial Services Companies Get The Most Complaints?
Answer (from CFPB and Consumerist): Credit reporting agencies (three of top four) and banks As we have noted previously, 1 out of 4 consumers have errors on their credit reports, which highlights the...
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Which Account Would You Choose?
Thanks to my colleague, Jessica, for letting me know about this phenomenon of a 10 year CD with an interest rate below a regular savings account. So, the question for your students is this: Suppose...
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