We want to provide these students with skills before they reach high school or are in a situation where they have to make financial decisions.

I hope they (teens) will be able to manage their money in a manner that is really successful for them and will provide for them for the rest of their lives.

My husband and I decided we were going to make them work together, and that really made the argumentation between the two of them go away. Now they really have to work together.

They begin to see the difference between the immediate gratification of working and buying things now versus the delayed gratification of a better career option and higher salary.

The Beslan Mothers are becoming more and more empowered with time passing, ... The meeting is a very good move.

Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together [in the face of Hurricane Katrina], ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.