A Junior Achievement Podcast giving a youth perspective on important financial, career, and life-planning topics that affect all of us.
Whether it’s from the supermarket, the farmer’s market or from a restaurant, facing the cost of food is a daily challenge for many. This week on The Money JAR, our hosts speak with popular food bloggers Mary Anne Rittenhouse and Beth Moncel as they focus on recipes, tips and tricks to helping young adults and families get a handle their household food budget.
Knowing how to be financially responsible is arguably one of the most important skills an adult can have. Often, the financial decisions that a young person makes early on will determine their quality of life for decades to come. So what can be done to hone economic savvy at an early age? Tune in as our hosts explore Junior Achievement’s new state-of-the-art mobile financial literacy program for teens, JA Finance Park!
This week The Money JAR explores non-traditional summer camps that introduce kids and teens to the world of business, money, and entrepreneurship, such as the Young Entrepreneur’s Business Week here in Portland.
Where is a child’s place in making family money decisions? How do we involve kids with how much we spend on them? Todd and Evan answer these questions this week with the help of Jayne Pearl, a journalist and author of the Kids and Money book series.
As you rack your brain around what types of presents to give your kids during the holidays, what is your family’s philosophy around monetary gifts? …
