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PwC Announces a $30 Million Extension to Earn Your Future

April 7, 2015

New York, April 6, 2015 /3BL Media/ – Today, as part of National Financial Capability Month, PwC US and the PwC Charitable Foundation Inc. announced a $30 million…

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Innovators Improve Consumer Confidence in the Financial Solutions Lab

April 6, 2015

Low-income American families spend the same share of their yearly income on interest and fees as the average American household spends yearly on food. Worse…

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Junior Achievement of New York Announces New Funding for Third Quarter of the 2014-15 School Year

April 3, 2015

[NEW YORK, NY] – Junior Achievement of New York – the leading provider of “real world” education for K-12 students in NYC and Long Island,…

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Junior Achievement / Allstate Survey Reveals Disconnect Between Teens’ and Parents’ Views on Paying for College and Other Personal Finance Topics

April 2, 2015

NEW YORK, NY— Junior Achievement USA® (JA) and The Allstate Foundation released startling findings from the 2015 Teens & Personal Finance Survey, which expanded to…

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Mobile Finance Park Returns to Prepare Long Island Students for Real World Financial Realities

April 2, 2015

NEW YORK, NY – Capital One / Junior Achievement Mobile Finance Park is moving to Hauppauge, Suffolk County, Long Island for an eighth season cycle after…

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How Scouting Helped Prepare This Teen to Fight Cancer

March 31, 2015

Katie Casserly never knew how much the Scout Motto — “Be Prepared” — would apply to her life until she was diagnosed with cancer last…

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Are We Creating a Lost Generation of Women in Our Workforce?

March 17, 2015

Throughout the past 16 years, I’ve seen many qualified women come through our doors who are simply passed over in the job market, judged on…

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Thurgood Marshall College Fund Partnering with Apple to Inspire the Next Generation of Talent

March 17, 2015

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) and Apple have announced a partnership to identify, develop and harness talent from the nation’s community of Historically Black…

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Junior Achievement Teams-up With AT&T to Mentor Teens on Career Goals and Choices

March 10, 2015

What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? Such a simple question that is so hard to answer. Did you know what you wanted…

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Coming to Our Senses in the Concrete Jungle

March 3, 2015

At Spoons Across America, we believe the best approach to nutrition education is to encourage children to lift up their spoons and excite all their…

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Why Engineers Should Apply to Teach For America

March 3, 2015

Vincent Mo is an engineering manager at Google and friend of TFA alum Gary Chen (Houston ’04). Vincent recently reached out to a prospective corps…

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National Nutrition Month: Addressing Nutrition-related Issues

March 3, 2015

March is National Nutrition Month, a national campaign that focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.…

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