The players, ages 11 to 26, may come to get away from the stresses of life. But the founder of the group hoped they would see parallels between Monopoly and the prospects of their success: Both are games of choice and chance.And today I see this about a library in Prince George County, MD:
“We’re trying to teach them financial literacy, but we don’t tell them that,” said Kim Carrington, the Prince George’s substitute teacher and parent activist who started the program. “We tell them what a great game it is.”
Brittanie Brooks walked into a library in Prince George’s County, Md., breezing past the shelves of books, a printing station and a computer lab. Her destination was a study room, now converted into a no-cost grocery store where seniors on fixed incomes, laid-off federal workers and others in need can shop.
Ms. Brooks surveyed the selection: rows of cereal, crackers and pancake mix stacked on the shelves; pizza and chicken in the freezer; and baskets of apples and oranges, onions and bell peppers. Then she mentally calculated what she would need to feed her five children for the week, settling on pasta, rice and chicken — staples she could stretch. It was all free.
She was among the first customers at the Fairmount Five Market, which opened in May at the back of the Fairmount Heights Branch Library. In June, a second free grocery store, District 7 Fresh Market, opened a few miles away at the Spauldings Branch Library.
My questions is, how are these amazing things happening in Price George libraries? Are they happening anywhere else? Why not? Why is there not a large national task force trying to make these things happen in every town in America?
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