What kind of choices will you make once you are down to your last $1,000?
Find out by playing “Spent,” the online game that gives you a glimpse at what it’s like to be poor.
Click here to play.
The game is the brainchild of Jenny Nicholson, a copywriter for ad agency McKinney in Durham, N.C. She based the game on some of the options she faced growing up up poor.
She wants every member of Congress to play it, too. Click here to see her petition.
Click here to read my column on MarketWatch.
September 23, 2011
Dear Al–Great story (“Poverty Isn’t Just a Game”). Thanks for bringing the game–and more importantly, the realities behind it–to my and others’ attention.