Jul 3, 2023

Skin in the Game: Here’s your change!

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At mentoring program Gameheads, students draw on lived experience to create video games. Some are tackling the gentrification happening in their own neighborhoods. Plus, the latest on student loan repayments.

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Skin in the Game

This video game teaches players about gentrification

by David Brancaccio

Jul 3, 2023

At the Oakland-based nonprofit Gameheads, people go from playing video games to making them, drawing from lived experience.

From left to right, Rogelio Lara, co-creator of the "Here's Your Change" video game, chats with "Marketplace Morning Report" host David Brancaccio.

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