Empowering our young generations through economics
Using Economic Education to Help K-12 Youth Increase Their Living Standards
We’re developing educational initiatives to serve the youth who need them most around the world, reforming their decision-making processes and bolstering their quality of life. And now, with COVID-19 rampant in low-income communities worldwide, young global citizens need economic education more now than ever.
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18
student-run chapters
7
different countries
1,800+
community members benefitted
$3,000+
raised
300
books donated
ABOUT
What We Do
Programs
We believe in practical economics, not technical jargon and hard-to-digest formulas and graphs. Teach our 32-week, open-source economics curriculum in your school or community chapter today!
About Us
We're a youth-led, international nonprofit equalizing economic education access for K-12 students, training them to be informed citizens and key players in today's global economy. Spanning 9 timezones, our core team is committed to setting the standard for economic education.
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At its core, our chapter network is how we implement personal, educational, and professional opportunities. Start a chapter in your school or another community organization, and use all our resources to your benefit.
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The Issue
A Big Opportunity to Make An Impact
According to the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center, 2 in 3 adults globally are financially illiterate –an issue with deep roots stemming from underexposure at a young age. In the United States where operationEconomics is based, only 20 out of 50 states require the completion of an economics class to graduate high school. Of that, only 16 have a state-mandated test of economic concepts, which hasn't changed since 2014, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Studies and economists consistently demonstrate the importance of early economic education exposure in private and public decision-making in all countries, yet negligence from school educators and administrators in addition to the lack of funding at the national and state/provincial scale for local classrooms make economic education largely inaccessible for most K-12 students worldwide.
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