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Financial Empowerment

This training is about understanding how the modern financial world impacts...
Your Students
Their Families
Their Community
The Planet
 
Student learning outcomes include…
  • A framework for managing their current and future financial resources
  • Math and Social Science skills in the context of personal decisions
  • An understanding of the historical and structural phenomenon that lead to economic and social inequality
 
Curriculum: The Six basic Skills for Financial Empowerment (with Common Core Student Learning Objectives in parentheses)…
  1. Making PLANS: Goals, Financial Statements, Budgets (Pre-Algebra)
  2. TIME is MONEY: Interest, Inflation, Present and future Value (Proportions, Decimals, Exponents, Finite Series)
  3. Navigating RISK: Contingencies, Risk Aversion, Insurance (Probability, Expected Value)
  4. CONSUMER Savvy: Adverse Interest and Caveat Emptor, Consumer Rights and Recourse
  5. Understanding INEQUALITY: The Distribution of Wealth and Income in New York City, the United States and the World (Populations and Samples, Distributions, Means and Medians, Variance)
  6. PUBLIC Choices vs. PRIVATE choices: Externalities and Public Goods, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, The Coase Theorem.
 
About the Consultant: Charles Hatcher is a Cornell-educated Ph.D. in Consumer Economics, and was a professor for 11 years at three large public universities.  He taught, conducted research, and developed learning materials in consumer economics, personal finance, and public policy.  He has served as a consultant to the financial industry and major philanthropic foundations.  He was the Chief Financial Officer for the City of Jackson, Mississippi.
Founded by veteran New York City educators and nationally-known consultants Mimi Aronson and Artie Voigt.
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