excerpt: The official mission of Youth Entrepreneurs is to provide kids with business and entrepreneurial education and experiences that help them prosper and become contributing members of society. The underlying goal of the program, however, is to impart Kochs radical free-market ideology to teenagers. In the last school year, the class reached more than 1,000 students across Kansas and Missouri. Lesson plans and class materials obtained by The Huffington Post make the courses message clear: The minimum wage hurts workers and slows economic growth. Low taxes and less regulation allow people to prosper. Public assistance harms the poor. Government, in short, is the enemy of liberty. Though YE has avoided the public spotlight, the current structure of the program began to take shape in November 2009, documents show, when a team of associates at the Charles G. Koch Foundation launched an important project with Charles Kochs blessing: They would design and test what they called a high school free market and liberty-based course with support from members of the Koch familys vast nonprofit and political network.
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 23:11:37 +0000
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