What do Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Barbie all have in common? They were all crowned “bosses of the boost” to the U.S. economy during the summer of 2023! Experts say spending is up nationwide this summer, thanks in large part to these three! This is the opposite of what many experts previously predicted for the 2023 year... a recession! Check out the first episode of FinCap Friday for the new school year below: 

Click here to access the Kahoot quiz and discussion prompt. If you're short on time, try our simplified No Tech version containing embedded questions right in the slide deck! You might even prefer to embed the quiz questions into the video with this Edpuzzle video.

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Check out all of our FinCap Friday episodes here. They're not date-dependent so you have nearly 200 videos and topics to choose from throughout the coming year!

BIG NEWS: 

NGPF's Payback Challenge is back!

A total of $50,000 will be awarded in student scholarships.

Learn how your students can enter and more at https://www.ngpf.org/paybackchallenge/

About the Author

Yanely Espinal

Born and raised by Dominican, immigrant parents in Brooklyn, Yanely is a proud product of NYC public schools. She graduated from Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School in 2007 before going on to receive her bachelor's degree at Brown University in 2011. As a Teach For America corps member, Yanely taught third and fourth grade in Canarsie, Brooklyn. She received her master's degree from Relay Graduate School of Education in 2013. She spends her spare time making YouTube videos about personal finance on her channel, MissBeHelpful. Yanely also loves to dance, sew, paint, listen to podcasts, and babysit her 10 nieces and nephews!