Sound of Money: Back-to-school shopping
Tess Vigeland: It’s two weeks ’til Labor Day, but kids are already going back to school. And that means back-to-school shopping. Wall Street is hoping for healthy retail sales this monthm which bring us to a new occasional segment.
Millie Jefferson: This is the sound of money:
Sound of school bell ringing
$544 billion: That’s the amount that public elementary and secondary schools are projected to spend this school year.
Break that down and you get:
$11,000: That’s the amount those schools will spend on each student. And those students are spending too.
$902.22: That’s how much the average college student will spend before heading to school.
$83.8 billion: That’s the total amount that the National Retail Federation expects American K through college students and their families to spend this back-to-school season. By the way, that’s up more than 11 percent from last year.
Lesson over. Class dismissed.
Sound of school bell ringing
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