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Warren Buffett Cartoon: 3-5 Minute Financial Literacy Clips

July 27, 2009 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

Update Oct 23, 2011: The Hub Premieres Secret Millionaires Club Special Sept 9, 2011: New launch: Cha-Ching Asia/Cartoon Network and April 23, 2010: new site Cash Savvy Kids w/experts advising … [Read more...]

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Budget Hero Game: Want To Be President of the USA?

February 24, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Sept. 18, 2012 Tomorrow Sept. 19, 2012, two students from the Maryland School of Public Policy join WilsonCenter.org on Capitol Hill to launch Budget Hero new "Election Edition" engaging a group of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: address to Congress, Budget Hero, credit crunch, debt, education, February 24 first budget speech, financial literacy, fiscal, Freakonomics, Game of Life, games, gaming, Kids, Minyanland, Obama Congressional address, President Obama CNN/Facebook, State of the Union, student debt, TopTenz

Money Management for Kids: Chores, Allowance & Digital Nagging

December 23, 2008 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

Part Two of our interview with PAYjr CEO David Jones includes one of the rarely used aspects of PAYjr's chore and allowance program (only 5% evidently) where parents can set up cell phone reminders … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: allowances, binge shopping, chores, commercialism, consumption, credit cards, credit counseling, cyber nagging, dangers of debt, David Jones CEO Payjr, debt, economics, finance, financial education, financial literacy, financial reminders, generation debt, Health 2.0, holiday debt, iThryv, Jumpstart Financial Coalition, Kids, Minyanland, money habits, money lessons, money sense, My Reward board, NCEE, NSF, online allowance tools, online banking, online chore chart, pay jr, Payjr, payjunior, shop til you drop, shopping, SMS, student debt, Students, texting, virtual chore chart, weprosper

Shaping Youth Interviews PAYjr CEO on Kids’ Prepaid Plastic

December 22, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Seeing as how we’re smack dab in the “final 48 hour retail frenzy” of credit card-flinging shoppers at risk of losing every logical brain cell, my interview with PAYjr Founder/CEO … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: allowance, chores, Consumers Union, consumption, Credit Card Reform, credit cards, custom prepaid card, dangers of debt, David Jones, David Jones CEO Payjr, debt, debt binge, financial education, financial literacy, financial savvy, holiday spending, Kids, kids packing plastic, Minyanland, Pay junior, Payjr, PAYjr Visa Buxx card, plastic, prepaids, reloading fees, taming the gimmes, teen prepaid cards, teen spending, teens, Visa Buxx

“My Gift Card’s Worthless? That’s So Unfair!” Cry Foul to the FTC

September 24, 2008 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

I don’t know about you, but with California schools on the skids, turning pockets inside out in a pathetic, penniless shrug, parents have been asked to contribute to fundraisers that also … [Read more...]

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