Can You Make it Through the Month? Financial Decisions of the Poor

Here’s an online “game” found for us by one of our most trusted advisers, Boston University Finance Professor Zvi Bodie. “Spent” was created through a collaboration between Urban Ministries of Durham in North Carolina and the advertising firm McKinney. It gives a sense of what it means to be poor in America these days. Eye-opening, if dispiriting:

Watch ‘SPENT’ about what went into making the game:

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