Faced with the current crisis, my concern grows about the lack of education in economics and finance subjects in the institutions of the region and the need to include them in the educational curriculum. The economy is an integral part of everyday life and a basic understanding of its principles is essential for making personal and professional decisions. A large proportion of Murcian adolescents and young people have insufficient insight into the environment in which they will operate when they enter the labor market. This can lead them to make inappropriate financial decisions in the long run, such as choosing an unaffordable mortgage, drowning in consumer loans and revolving cards, or crashing with cryptocurrencies, tokens, junk bonds, trading, preferred stocks, promissory notes from insolvent companies. , ‘ponzi’ schemes, etc. In addition, the lack of training in economics contributes to the lack of understanding of wider issues on the part of Murcian youth, such as inflation, the future of pensions, the government deficit, fiscal pressures , the importance of sectors such as agriculture and hoteliers, the virtue of starting a business… In these cases, young people are highly exposed to manipulation through simplistic and tendentious discourses (you know, the fault is always the rich and the “exploitative companies”). That is why I think it is essential that economics subjects are taught transversally in the institutes. This would enable the generational renewal of the Region to have the tools to effectively face a future that will not be easy in the medium term.
Source: La Verdad
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