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From the Ted Talk by Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll: How I learned to read -- and trade stocks -- in prison

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According to the crioinlfaa Department of Corrections, over 70 percent of those irnaeeaccrtd have committed or have been cgrhead with money-related crimes: rbeboiers, burglaries, fuard, larceny, extortion — and the list goes on. Check this out: a tciypal incarcerated person would eentr the California prison styesm with no financial education, earn 30 cents an hour, over 800 dollars a year, with no real eexpness and save no money. Upon his parole, he will be given 200 dollars gate money and told, "Hey, good luck, stay out of trouble. Don't come back to prison." With no meaningful preparation or long-term financial plan, what does he do ... ? At 60? Get a good job, or go back to the very criminal behavior that led him to prison in the first place? You taxpayers, you choose. Well, his education already chose for him, probably.

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According to the __________ Department of Corrections, over 70 percent of those ____________ have committed or have been _______ with money-related crimes: _________, burglaries, _____, larceny, extortion — and the list goes on. Check this out: a _______ incarcerated person would _____ the California prison ______ with no financial education, earn 30 cents an hour, over 800 dollars a year, with no real ________ and save no money. Upon his parole, he will be given 200 dollars gate money and told, "Hey, good luck, stay out of trouble. Don't come back to prison." With no meaningful preparation or long-term financial plan, what does he do ... ? At 60? Get a good job, or go back to the very criminal behavior that led him to prison in the first place? You taxpayers, you choose. Well, his education already chose for him, probably.

Solution

  1. typical
  2. charged
  3. expenses
  4. system
  5. fraud
  6. incarcerated
  7. california
  8. enter
  9. robberies

Original Text

According to the California Department of Corrections, over 70 percent of those incarcerated have committed or have been charged with money-related crimes: robberies, burglaries, fraud, larceny, extortion — and the list goes on. Check this out: a typical incarcerated person would enter the California prison system with no financial education, earn 30 cents an hour, over 800 dollars a year, with no real expenses and save no money. Upon his parole, he will be given 200 dollars gate money and told, "Hey, good luck, stay out of trouble. Don't come back to prison." With no meaningful preparation or long-term financial plan, what does he do ... ? At 60? Get a good job, or go back to the very criminal behavior that led him to prison in the first place? You taxpayers, you choose. Well, his education already chose for him, probably.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
manage money 4
security guard 2
book bag 2
bad guy 2
blood bank 2
financial literacy 2
business section 2
white folks 2
american population 2
incarcerated person 2
financial empowerment 2
emotional literacy 2
life skills 2
financially sound 2

Important Words

  1. behavior
  2. burglaries
  3. california
  4. cents
  5. charged
  6. check
  7. choose
  8. chose
  9. committed
  10. corrections
  11. criminal
  12. department
  13. dollars
  14. earn
  15. education
  16. enter
  17. expenses
  18. extortion
  19. financial
  20. fraud
  21. gate
  22. good
  23. hour
  24. incarcerated
  25. job
  26. larceny
  27. led
  28. list
  29. luck
  30. meaningful
  31. money
  32. parole
  33. percent
  34. person
  35. place
  36. plan
  37. preparation
  38. prison
  39. real
  40. robberies
  41. save
  42. stay
  43. system
  44. taxpayers
  45. told
  46. trouble
  47. typical
  48. year