High Returns

 
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What is High Returns?

High Returns is the Junior Economic Club℠'s primary community outreach initiative, centered around fostering financial literacy education at an early age. During this program, students will have the opportunity to explore their skills, interests, values, and the world of work to make informed education, career, and life decisions. This program was developed with a primary emphasis on entrepreneurship, financial literacy, and work readiness, while also providing a strong secondary emphasis on mathematics, reading, and writing skills. Upon completion of our program, students will have learned fundamental business and economic concepts, explored career interests and opportunities, and developed work-readiness skills. 

How does it work? 

The leaders of this program are Junior Economic Club members who are passionate about being mentors for younger Chicago and Nashville students. These members have gone through financial literacy training and are more than qualified to be educating middle schoolers about these important topics. With High Returns, four to five JEC℠ members lead a series of 45-minute Zoom workshops on finance for 7th and 8th graders at various local, underserved middle schools. The workshops are engaging, exciting, and interactive, while simultaneously teaching students about important topics and life skills such as the concept of credit and identifying the connection between goal setting, personal finance, education, and career choices.

You can view a brief overview of the lessons here.

If you are interested, please complete this Google form as we are regularly planning virtual camps! Please contact board@junioreconomicclub.org with any questions.

Why does it matter?

Studies have shown that in-school teaching of financial literacy from a young age has a significant impact on a student’s financial success and competency as an adult. However, financial literacy is rarely taught in elementary schools, or even high schools across the nation. It is also proven that low-income and minority students are more likely to be less financially literate in their adulthood. These are the problems that the Junior Economic Club℠ is trying to solve with the High Returns initiative.