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Financial education empowers students to make their money work for them and ultimately be a catalyst toward upward mobility. This program is designed for 1st and 2nd-year mentorship students and their families, not only to teach them about saving, budgeting, and investing but also giving them an opportunity to earn money to create meaningful change in their school or community.
Subject areas to be covered:
- The link between financial literacy and financial resilience
- Personal finance knowledge and understanding in the following ten functional areas:
- Earning—determinants of wages and take-home pay.
- Consuming—budgets and managing spending.
- Saving—factors that maximize accumulations.
- Investing—investment types, risk and return.
- Borrowing and managing debt—the relationship between loan features and repayments.
- Insuring—types of coverage and how insurance works.
- Comprehending risk and uncertainty—understanding uncertain financial outcomes
- Paying for college.
- Behavioral economics taxes
- Go-to information sources—recognizing appropriate sources and advice.