116 – Should the Grade 10 Career Studies Course Include Financial Literacy?
Nov 19, 2016•27 min
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Episode description
Does financial literacy belong in high schools? This question is surfacing more and more as Canadians dig themselves further into debt. Today's guest is Prakash Amarasooriya, a member of the Toronto Youth Cabinet who recently launched a petition urging the Ontario Ministry of Education to beef up their Grade 10 career studies course to include basic financial skills like budgeting. Within less than a month the petition was signed by nearly 900 supporters.
What should be taught? Will it have an impact?
That’s today’s topic on Debt Free in 30.
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