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-: We have a financial literacy concert going on.
We're at Pound Middle School today.
We have the entire 8th grade
and they are currently listening
to some rock n' roll music.
It's a really high energy, fun show
after which they're going to be introduced
to some financial literacy concepts
from the band that has now
established themselves to be cool (laughs).
-: Folks, to me, the most rock n' roll thing in the world
is that young people get to take all that future
and do everything they can with it.
-: Learning can be fun and should be fun
and when you can bring an entertainment in
to incorporate that into the learning
and provide the learning, in this case,
it's great and the kids are very, very into it.
-: How would you make money as a teen
who couldn't get a job?
-: What's a good credit score?
-: It is so important for kids to have this information
and to be financially literate
because this is a life skill,
so it is this area that can affect
the rest of their lives.
If we can get them early with this information
and have them, for example, just start saving early,
it changes the entire direction,
the entire course of their financial future.
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-: 'Cause I think it's entertaining
and it hooks the audience
and then so they're ready to listen
and they're inspired by the singers.
-: So we know how to manage our money better
and so we don't go into debt
or do anything bad with our money.
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-: We're doing almost 50 schools this three months
and we have another 50 coming up in the spring.
We've reached over 50,000 kids so far
and we just want to keep it going
and find other groups to do this.
Jennifer: You can see it just in their reaction
of the students and the Q and A period
and they're asking these great, thoughtful questions.
-: What is a good spending budget to have?
-: After the fact, we have little postcards
where they have them go online
and they enter their SMART goals.
So, they talk about, "I'm gonna start budgeting now
"and I'm gonna start saving now,"
so we definitely see the impact from that.
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