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is the VOA Special English Economics Report.

Junior Achievement an international movement to educate young people about business economics. The purpose is to help them prepare to in a world economy.

The organization is the of its kind. JA Worldwide says it reaches about and one-half million students each year in nearly one countries. Programs begin in elementary school and continue through and high school. The education is based on the of market-based economics and entrepreneurship.

Junior Achievement began in nineteen in Springfield, Massachusetts. Two business leaders, Horace Moses Theodore Vail, joined with Senator Murray Crane of Massachusetts start it.

For more than fifty years, Junior Achievement met after school. They began as a group of clubs. The organization started with a small number of ages ten to twelve.

But in nineteen seventy-five-, Achievement began to offer classes during school hours. Many young people joined the organization once it began to business skills as part of the school day.

from the community teach about businesses, how they are , and how products are made and sold. They also about the American and world economies, the money system, and trade.

The Junior Achievement Company Program teaches people how entrepreneurship works. They learn about business by their own companies.

The students develop a product and shares in their company. They use the money to the materials they need to make their product, which they sell. Finally, they return the profits to the who bought shares in the company.

Junior Achievement says than two hundred fifty thousand volunteers support its programs the world. In the United States alone, there are than twenty-one thousand places that hold Junior Achievement events.

Achievement Incorporated and Junior Achievement International combined their operations two thousand four. They formed Junior Achievement Worldwide. Its are in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

And that's the VOA English Economics Report, written by Shelley Gollust and Mario . Transcripts and archives are at voaspecialenglishcom where you can find a link to the JA Web site, jaorg.. Faith Lapidus.

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