Junior Achievement USA® is one of the six regions that comprise the JA Worldwide family. Find out more about JA Worldwide here.
What's New
- New York Life Foundation Awards $330,000 to Junior Achievement
- Junior Achievement Announces Plans to Transform JA Company Program
- Junior Achievement and The Financial Services Roundtable: A Big Year
- Junior Achievement Launches "Destined to Travel with JA" Contest
- Junior Achievement and the National Chamber Foundation Announce Free Enterprise National Survey Results
- Junior Achievement and Capital One Launch JA Finance Park Virtual, an Online Educational Game that Helps Kids Learn Personal Finance Skills
- Teen Entrepreneurs Take Regional Title by Leveraging Social Media to Promote Their Company
- Junior Achievement Operations Win Awards for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Florida Teens Named North America's Top Bankers in Junior Achievement Virtual Competition
- Economics Crash Course: Teens Learn College Education Doesn't Come Cheap
- ING Individual Retirement CEO Lynne Ford Joins Junior Achievement USA Board
- Donaldson Foundation Grants Junior Achievement $100,000 to Expand its Impact to Donaldson Plant Cities
- MetLife Foundation Provides Funding to Junior Achievement for New Partnership with VolunteerMatch
- New Poll Shows Managing Money is Todays Birds and Bees Talk
- New Poll: Risk and Failure Top Deterrents for Aspiring Teen Entrepreneurs
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Junior Achievement USA®
Junior Achievement Sparks Student Success
Junior Achievement (JA) empowers young people to own their economic success. Our volunteer-delivered, K-12 programs foster work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy skills, and use experiential learning to inspire kids to dream big and reach their potential.
Junior Achievement impacts 4 million U.S. students in more than 173,000 classrooms. With the help of 171,000 volunteers, JA students develop the skills they need to experience the realities and opportunities of work and entrepreneurship in the 21st-century global marketplace.
Junior Achievement Enhances Communities
There are more than 120 JA Areas operating across the United States. Through an innovative partnership between the business community, educators and volunteers, these JA Areas help young people connect with relevant learning and the importance of staying in school. JA inspires students to develop competitive skills and confidence. Their success bolsters the local workforce and contributes to economic growth.
Junior Achievement:
A Solution to the Workforce Skills Gap
The workforce skills gap has a significant impact on our nation's productivity, economy, and global competitiveness. Learn more about this issue and how Junior Achievement is addressing it, by teaching students how to apply the knowledge they learn in the classroom to real-world problems and equipping them with the skills they need to be college- and career-ready.
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JA Graduation Pathways
As a complement to its focus on helping all students understand the
importance of staying in school, Junior Achievement is helping to positively
impact one of the biggest economic and social issues facing our countrythe high
school graduation rate. Read about JAs comprehensive study to develop a model
focused on increasing this important metric.
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2011 Free Enterprise Survey
Junior Achievement USA and the National Chamber Foundation recently
conducted the first-ever national survey of high school juniors views
of entrepreneurship, free enterprise and capitalism. See what the next
generation of entrepreneurs had to sayread the results here.
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CNN/HLN Coverage:
JA Offers Tips About Kids and Credit
Only 10 percent of kids 12-17 say they have a credit card, but 60
percent say people should get one after high school. Watch this clip
from CNN/HLNs Top Tips where JA USAs President and CEO Jack
Kosakowski shared tips for teaching kids the value of credit.
Read the full article
JA Finance Park® Virtual
See JA Finance Park Virtual in action!
This new, online personal-finance simulation helps students learn how to
budget, save, invest and spend responsibly. JA Finance Park Virtual was
generously sponsored by Capital One Financial Corporation.
Junior Achievement Is Making a Difference: View an Inspiring Story of Students and Volunteers
View the video and get a better understanding of students excitement over Junior Achievement learning and volunteer mentorshipand the reciprocal feeling of reward and satisfaction that volunteers experience. While JA empowers young people to own their economic success, it also inspires JA volunteers.
Looking for Position Papers?
See these and many other Position Papers in the archive
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