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Today, consumer debt has reached an all-time high ? the confluence of stagnant wages and skyrocketing education, health care and housing costs. So how do we prepare our kids for anything but a future paying off the past? A San Francisco-based nonprofit organization called Juma Ventures is teaching low-income teenagers how to prepare for their financial futures. Juma is helping youth hone their employment skills and earn some cash with work at big league ballparks?but beyond just jobs in food concessions, the program also teaches them how to be financially literate?through workshops that show them how to save money, spend responsibly and build their assets. KALW News reporter Fawnee Evnochides profiles a group that?s helping kids get a financial game plan. (PLEASE NOTE: This story begins with about 25 seconds of ballpark ambience to be faded in underneath host tracks.)
Broadcast History
Originally aired on KALW, 91.7 FM in San Francisco on Sunday, June 4, 2006.
Transcript
JUMA VENTURES
Fawnee Evnochides
Airdate:
LEDE:
A San Francisco-based nonprofit organization called Juma Ventures is teaching low-income teenagers how to prepare for their financial futures. Juma is helping youth hone their employment skills and earn some cash with work at big league ballparks?but beyond just jobs in food concessions, the program also teaches them how to be financially literate?through workshops that show them how to save money, spend responsibly and build their assets. Fawnee Evnochides reports on a local group that?s helping kids get into the game.
Scene 1: Ballpark
Ballpark ambi: sound of teenager working concessions at SBC
FE 1: Next time you?re at AT&T Park, if you happen to buy a Ben and Jerry?s ice cream or a Tully?s coffee, take a look at your vendor. It?s a young person working with Juma Ventures?a group that employs low- income youth to improve th...
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The story begins about 25 seconds into the recording, after a substantial amount of ballpark ambience to run under the host lede.
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