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New Game Aims To Teach Students Financial Literacy
The game sets the groundwork for monthly budgets by giving the player choices in a career and starting salary, rent or mortage, and transportation. It then takes you through a simulated life, facing events such as increased inflation, changes in cost of living, and pay raises. It seeks to simulate positive and negative changes that affect financial decision making.
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