Biz Kid$

Such a smart show and I love that CREDIT UNIONS are helping future and present customers understand what is happening in the world economy.

This show spends a lot of it's time Trying to convince children to take out debt. They try to tell kids that if they work hard enough they can be millionaires. Just a bunch of BS. Most of their advice only works if you're already wealthy. Not to mention the acting is cheesy and cringy. The little cartoons or side gags are pretty stupid and cringy as well. It's like an infomercial for children on capitalism. I'd say avoid this show if you can. A lot of the factoids they use to convince you to go into debt come from the '90s and definitely before covid so none of the advice is very useful. The quick cuts they stole from bill neye are the only good thing in this show.

Our preteens are highly engaged by this show. We started watching it with them as part of building their financial capabilities.

I was channel flipping today when I came across this corporate propaganda - aimed at kids and on public television! It depicted young kids - preteeens - taking out business loans, and encouraged other kids to do the same thing! Their interest rates were terrible at that! The last thing we need to do is raise ANOTHER generation of debtors. Luckily, I think most parents today realize this is a bad idea, given their own economic problems and the economic crisis in general. But when I, and probably parents, turn on PBS, I think there is going to be some level of neutrality and sound educational material for children. The kind of stuff you can let your kids watch without having to explain to them that the information they're being fed is biased and shouldn't be taken at face value. Sadly, that seems to not be the case. It's fine to teach people to manage their money, pay back their loans (IF they do decide to take them out - we need to stop assuming that everyone should or has to take them out), build their credit (although our reliance on credit scores also encourages a debt culture), and so on, when they're old enough to make these decisions based on their own needs and assets. We shouldn't be normalizing debt to young kids!

Financial literacy is so lacking in children AND ADULTS today. Understanding how money works, how to save capital and raise capital through loans to create money-making enterprises is fundamental to the American economy today.