What If Every Teen Graduated With $1K And An Investment Portfolio? These States Are Making That A Reality

What If Every Teen Graduated With $1K And An Investment Portfolio? These States Are Making That A Reality

What If Every Teen Graduated With $1K And An Investment Portfolio? These States Are Making That A Reality In Clarke County School District in Athens, Georgia, every high school senior has an investment portfolio. It’s a stark contrast to the state of financial literacy in the United States, where one in five teens lacks personal finance skills, according to the National Endowment for Financial Education. Gifted Savings — a nonprofit that gives high school seniors $1,000 in an investment portfolio, coupled with weekly lessons on the essentials of saving and investing — wants to change that.  They have a few pilot programs running across the country in California and Ohio, but their biggest rollout is in Athens.  TED-Ed + Gifted Savings meetup at TEDNext. November 9 - 11, 2025, Atlanta, GA. Photo: Ryan Lash / TED “We’re making Athens the very first city in America where every senior has a chance to graduate as an investor,” Gifted Savings executive director Josh Landay told Good Good Good. All…