Financial Education
Oscar Countdown: Is Up in the Air causey enough?
Did you ever think that you could live everywhere at once? George Clooney plays a character that travels constantly for his job, leaving him without roots or a home.
Up in the Air follows Ryan Bingham as he travels the country firing people from their jobs. He feels perfectly content, until rookie Natalie becomes his co-worker. The young girl points out Ryan’s lack of human connection, the importance of family and love, and the awful consequences that his work causes others.
The National Financial Capability Challenge wants you!
Only 10% of youth graduate from high school with any kind of instruction in personal finance. Maybe that’s why students double their average credit card debt – and triple the number of credit cards in their wallets – from the time they arrive on campus until graduation.
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