ADVISORY/Jesse Jackson, Rainbow/PUSH and The Stock Market Game-TM- to Announce Pilot Program to Advance Financial Literacy Among Minority Children.Business Editors, Education Writers ADVISORY...for Thursday Thursday: see week. (Jan. 13) --(BUSINESS WIRE) WHO: Jesse Jackson Noun 1. Jesse Jackson - United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941) Jesse Louis Jackson, Jackson , Rainbow/PUSH, two 11th graders and an award-winning teacher who have participated in The Stock Market Game. WHAT: The announcement of the launch of New York-based pilot program that will promote financial literacy Financial literacy is the ability of individuals to make appropriate decisions in managing their personal finances. Raising levels of financial literacy is now a focus of government programmes in countries including[1] Australia, Japan, the United States and the UK. and economic education among minority children through the use of The Stock Market Game, an Internet-based stock market simulation. The program will be held in conjunction with Rainbow/PUSH's Wall Street Project, which campaigns for greater racial diversity on Wall Street. A panel discussion featuring two 11th graders, Lily lily, common name for the Liliaceae, a plant family numbering several thousand species of as many as 300 genera, widely distributed over the earth and particularly abundant in warm temperate and tropical regions. Torres and Evan Jones, who have participated in SMG SMG - Screen Management Guidelines. A VMS package of run-time library routines providing windows on DEC VT100 terminals. , and their teacher, David Kaplan David Kaplan is the name of:
empowers and teaches life skills. WHY: Jesse Jackson and Rainbow/PUSH Coalition's Wall Street Project identified The Stock Market Game as a major educational tool in promoting economic literacy among inner city students. This past fall, Rainbow/PUSH and The Stock Market Game successfully piloted a program in Chicago in which students participated in SMG. The Stock Market Game is nationally owned and operated by the Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education, an affiliate of the Securities Industry Association. WHERE: The Third Annual Wall Street Project Conference Sheraton, NY Hotel & Towers/811 Seventh Avenue (52nd Street), New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY 10019 WHEN: Panel Discussion on SMG, January 13th, 2000, 11:15 a.m.-noon Wall Street Conference will be held January 12-14th Interview opportunities are available with David Kaplan and the two students before and after the panel discussion, or can be arranged at other times in advance. |
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