As you may or may not know, NGPF has a team of hardworking high school interns that help us with all manner of business. Today, a hat tip goes to Sid, who found this article from the NY Times — San Diego Voters Reject Funding of New Chargers Stadium. While this isn’t exactly personal finance, it fits in a few places in our NGPF curriculum:

• As a lead-in to our project Should Municipal Bonds Fund Stadiums? which Sid was instrumental in creating with me (Jessica). After doing online research using recommended resources, students prepare for and conduct a debate on whether cities should use municipal bonds to build sports stadiums.
• Or, you could add it as an extra resource in our Tax Basics lesson, especially as it aligns to hidden taxes Americans pay without realizing it. In this case, San Diegans voted against the tax, but it’s a great example of how democracy and taxes interact.
• I can also see this being a great article for a course in government or even sports management (the Chargers need to decide what their next steps will be…)

Thanks, Sid!

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Jessica Endlich

When I started working at Next Gen Personal Finance, it's as though my undergraduate degree in finance, followed by ten years as an educator in an NYC public high school, suddenly all made sense.