JA Afford Your Future

JA Afford Your Future provides teens, young adults, and their families the opportunity to explore career income and education funding options to ensure they can afford their ideal future. The website offers tools and resources that enable users to make career and education choices and avoid too much college debt.

Created jointly by Junior Achievement USA and PwC, JA Afford Your Future helps teens explore potential future income from a desired career and evaluate the cost of post-secondary education to help them make informed decisions.

By offering step-by-step guidance, users can compare potential combinations of career, education, and funding by creating multiple individualized snapshots, allowing them to make an informed decision to maximize future career earnings, minimize college debt, and ensure their economic empowerment.

JA Afford Your Future Learning Experience Brief

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