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Survey: Most Teens Aspire to Home Ownership but Report Significant Financial and Homeownership Knowledge Gaps
A new survey by Junior Achievement USA and Fannie Mae shows most teens (88%) would like to own a home someday. The survey reflects that most teens (85%) believe “owning…
Junior Achievement Announces the 25th Annual Dallas Business Hall of Fame® Laureate Inductees
(Dallas, TX) – The 2023 Dallas Business Hall of Fame inductees were announced today by Junior Achievement of Dallas. This year’s event will honor Hilda Galvan, Partner-in-Charge at Jones Day’s Dallas…
Helping Your Child Choose A Career Path
The questions and topics to start the conversation Future Career Considerations Don’t wait until the last minute to start these types of discussions with your young adult. Starting their sophomore…
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New Research Shows Majority of Teens Feel Unprepared to Finance Their Futures
Lack of access to technology emerging as top concern; high schoolers remain concerned about rising higher education costs (Dallas, TX) – After two uncertain and often stressful years, high school students…
JA Worldwide Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
The nomination deadline for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize is today, and we have just learned that JA Worldwide has been nominated! This is an incredible honor for the entire…
10 Million Reasons for Work and Career Readiness Education
Recently, and for the first time, the number of job openings in the United States exceeded 10 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover…
Why Work Needs Meaning
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT: THE MEANING OF WORK Much has been made in recent months about “The Great Resignation,” the tendency of young workers, primarily Millennials and Generation Z, to quit their…