Your Life, Your Money features compelling, real-life stories of young people facing and overcoming intense economic challenges. This one-hour special will empower our youth with sound, simple financial advice - raising awareness on banking, credit, investments, budgeting, insurance, self-employment, and more.

Loaded with practical, engaging information, Your Life, Your Money has a full team of personal finance experts - including, best-selling author Beth Kobliner and syndicated columnist Michelle Singletary. The show also provides celebrity insights from hip-hop icon Russell Simmons and R&B pop singer D. Wood.

Beyond the program, Your Life, Your Money will host a number of national outreach events to improve money management skills for young adults. Teachers and parents can also find tools and resources to help create their own activities and lesson plans.

Watch Your Life, Your Money, the entire program as well as key moments. The videos — and other resources throughout this site — are all meant to help you manage your money, not be managed by it.

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Join radio and television journalist Charles Osgood as he explains the workings of the Federal Reserve System.

This 13-minute video covers the Fed’s history from its creation in 1913 to the technological innovations of 21st century banking. It explores the structure of the Fed as well as monetary policy, banking supervision, financial services, and more.

This guide will lead you to all the resources you need to start your career or find a new one. Find reference materials, books in Maag or from OhioLINK, electronic books, information available in the research databases, and also government and web resources. You’ll be amazed at the resources available to you!

Also check out the Twitter Job Search section in the left column of the guide. Many job & career-related websites are posting job notices on Twitter. Click on the links to see current job postings.

Well before leaving college to begin their careers, students should take steps to improve and develop their financial literacy. In today’s complex world, young adults can find themselves victims of credit card and student loan scams or of identity theft before they even have a chance to give serious thought to their financial futures. Fortunately, due in large part to the ongoing economic crisis, financial literacy and economic education are beginning to receive much more attention. Many government agencies, associations, financial institutions, and educators are providing the information and tools that young people (beginning in grade school) need to map out a successful financial path for themselves. Included within this guide are many useful resources (print, electronic, web-based…) that will help educate you in personal finance. While the focus in selecting the resources on this guide is young adults and college students, the information provided will also help you plan far ahead into your financial future and improve your economic well-being.

New print reference resource:
The Princeton Encyclopedia
of the World Economy

This 2-volume encyclopedia is available
in the Reference Room at call number
HF1373 .P75 2009

Increasing economic globalization has made understanding the world economy more important than ever. From trade agreements to offshore outsourcing to foreign aid, this two-volume encyclopedia explains the key elements of the world economy and provides a first step to further research for students and scholars in public policy, international studies, business, and the broader social sciences, as well as for economic polcy professionals.

Written by an international team of contributors, this comprehensive reference includes more than 300 up-to-date entries covering a wide range of topics in international trade, finance, production, and economic development. These topics include concepts and principles, models and theory, institutions and agreements, policies and instruments, analysis and tools, and sectors and special issues. Each entry includes cross-references and a list of sources for further reading and research. Complete with an index and a table of contents that groups entries by topic, The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy is an essential resource for anyone who needs to better understand the global economy.

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“Things are looking pretty bleak right now. But, the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. So BusinessWeek asked several futurists, including Futurist.com’s Glen Hiemstra, consultant David Zach, and author Howard Rheingold, to describe what they’d like to see arise from the current downturn. Notably, our experts didn’t think of innovation merely in terms of products or services. These ideas will change the way humans interact with the earth—and with each other.”

In a nutshell:

1. Ocean-driven hydropower
2. Miniaturized medical equipment
3. 3D printing
4. Even smarter mobile applications
5. Next-generation bio-fuels
6. Electric vehicles
7. Truly “on-demand” entertainment
8. Nanotech computing
9. Cure for cancer
10. Futuristic science & math toys
11. Using the body’s natural energies to power electrical equipment
12. Harnessing the power of the crowd
13. Social media literacy
14. Far-reaching overhaul of the global financial system
15. Pop-up businesses that tackle a single project before disbanding
16. Reformed urban transit systems
17. Cure for Alzheimer’s
18. Pop-up housing: Refurbishing leftover shipping containers into housing units
19. Super-high-speed internet
20. Super-charged batteries

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“In the Rust Belt city of Youngstown, Ohio, a high-tech incubator is producing successful software companies. Nearly 300 people are working for a cluster of companies that have huddled together to create cutting-edge products. Even in this extremely depressed area, in the midst of a deep recession, entrepreneurship is flourishing and creating jobs.”

New print reference resource:
The Directory of Business Information Resources 2008!

This directory is available in the Reference Room at call number HF54.52 .U5 D567 2008.

The fifteenth edition of The Directory of Business Information Resources is a premier reference book for business researchers covering 98 industries, from Accounting and Advertising to Water Supply and Wholesale Services. Each chapter includes a variety of valuable industry-specific resources, including Associations, Magazines, Journals, Newsletters, Trade Shows, Directories, Databases and Web Sites.

This edition includes 21,800 listings, including hundreds of brand new listings and thousands of updates. It’s the most comprehensive guide to business information on the market today. A quick look at the Table of Contents shows this 2008 edition covers all the largest industries, including Healthcare, Drugs & Pharmaceutical, Computers & Data Processing, Banking, Financial Services, Credit & Lending Services, Internet, Broadcasting, Communications & Media, Environment & Conservation, Safety & Security, Management, Marketing, Hotels & Motels, Performing Arts, Restaurants, Sports & Recreation, Direct Marketing, Insurance, Libraries, Retailing and Travel.

The 2-volume work is available in the Reference Room at call number HB171 .E93 2008.

The purpose of this book is to introduce the field of economics, as well as its related topics personal money management and entrepreneurship, in a simple, meaningful way. It shows that economics, personal money management, and entrepreneurship are related to our ordinary everyday lives. The word finance, which has several meanings, is used to describe anything related to money and the economy. Everyday Finance was motivated by the growing awareness in the United States that economic literacy is essential for functioning in the modern world.

To explain the world of money, Everyday Finance features 300 articles, organized by subject into three major sections. The first, How the Economy Works, contains essays within several broad areas: macroeconomics, describing the economy as a whole; microeconomics, focusing on individual parts or forces in the economy; international trade, or buying and selling between countries; and the government’s role in the economy. Some essays relate to more than one area and were placed where they would be most useful to a person not familiar with economics.

After the first section introduces the basic ideas of economics, the second and third sections explain how people are personally involved in the economy, either as consumers or business owners. The second section, Personal Money Management, is broken down into four typical consumer roles: buying, borrowing, saving, and insuring. The third section, Entrepreneurship, discusses running a business, attracting customers, managing money, working with employees, and business ethics and the law.

Everyday Finance also includes biographies on seven influential economists throughout history. The book has over 220 images, as well as nearly 50 tables, charts, and graphs; a glossary of financial terms; a further reading section; and a subject index, listing all the topics featured in the book.