INTERACTIVE: Living Paycheck to Paycheck

In this Next Gen Personal Finance activity students will:

(1) Simulate living for a month with a $1000 budget 
(2) Make decisions between which expenses they can afford to pay and which ones they have to sacrifice 
(3) Read information and facts about unemployed Americans living through poverty

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