Governor of Michigan Gretchen Whitmer poses at an event where General Motors announced an investment of more than $7 billion in four Michigan manufacturing sites on January 25, 2022 in Lansing, Michigan.High school students in Michigan will soon be guaranteed a personal finance course before they graduate.
The Michigan House of Representatives on Tuesday passed HB 5190 by a vote of 94-13. The bill passed the state's Senate in May with a vote of 35-2. Next, it will be sent to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer for her to sign into law. Her signature will make Michigan the 14th state to mandate personal finance education at the high school level, according to Next Gen Personal Finance's bill tracker.
acorns
acorns What took so long?
acorns Smart idea
acorns This is good. Now let's go back to also mandating civics be taught in schools.
acorns Obama, 2012-the unemployment rate is double for those who don’t have a college education. Biden, 2021-Nearly 90% of the jobs created in the American Jobs Plan don't require a college degree; 75 percent don’t require an associate’s degree. Student loan holders, 2022 -Screwed
acorns I don't like the word 'mandate'.
acorns Unfortunately you don’t mandate that the kids shut their fucking mouths so they can learn something.