full transcript
From the Ted Talk by Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll: How I learned to read -- and trade stocks -- in prison
Unscramble the Blue Letters
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.
Open Cloze
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
- typical
- charged
- expenses
- system
- fraud
- incarcerated
- california
- enter
- 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
- behavior
- burglaries
- california
- cents
- charged
- check
- choose
- chose
- committed
- corrections
- criminal
- department
- dollars
- earn
- education
- enter
- expenses
- extortion
- financial
- fraud
- gate
- good
- hour
- incarcerated
- job
- larceny
- led
- list
- luck
- meaningful
- money
- parole
- percent
- person
- place
- plan
- preparation
- prison
- real
- robberies
- save
- stay
- system
- taxpayers
- told
- trouble
- typical
- year