Rise Up: From poverty through personal finance.

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We want students to recognize the importance of personal finance and how it can help them avoid the struggles associated with poverty. So after we introduce some of the themes around poverty, we want to have them think:

1. How can personal finance help people in poverty?
2. How can personal finance help people escape poverty?
3. How can personal finance help me to avoid poverty?


These are some of the reasons we teach about poverty. However, this is something I am going to reflect upon with students throughout the year. The importance of poverty in the equation of personal finance is paramount. We teach about poverty so that students:

1. will have empathy.
2. will understand how to manage finance at any level.
3. will understand how to help themselves and the ones they love.

I want to empower students and help them avoid poverty, but I don't want students to think that poverty is somehow a failure. I don't want them to oversimplify the complexity of the issue. How do I help them avoid poverty while also realizing that people aren't poor because they didn't plan?

As I consider that, I want to start to gather resources and ideas on how to rise up from poverty. These include a universal wage, raising the minimum wage and much more.


Universal Wage:
Here was an article from Zach Lind on giving mother's $1000 per month.


Raising the Minimum Wage:
https://raisetheminimumwage.com/

https://minimum-wage.procon.org/



Universal Healthcare:
commonwealthfund.org

NYT on race and universal health



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