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Youth financial empowerment initiative with NYC public schools
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Commissioner Mayuga introduces a new youth financial empowerment initiative in collaboration with NYC public schools.
- Initiative aims to build financially savvy New Yorkers from a young age
- Program will provide meaningful financial empowerment programming for youth and their families
- Services will be offered both in and outside of school environments
- Designed to address the needs identified in a public hearing on financial empowerment
- Commissioner expresses enthusiasm for helping a new generation of New Yorkers become financially literate
Vilda Vera Mayuga
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Secondly, something that I have been so passionate about bringing to the forefront is our new youth financial empowerment initiative with NYC public schools.
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I have spoken here before about the impact that our agency's financial education and counseling had on me as an adult.
0:21:01
However, a resounding theme of our November public hearing on financial empowerment was that the foundations of financial health and success really begin in childhood.
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By collaborating with NYC public schools, our initiative will build financially savvy New Yorkers by providing meaningful financial empowerment programming to address the needs of youth and their families both in and outside of school environments.
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We are so proud of this program and are excited to roll out services that will help a new generation of New Yorkers.