Spanos and a colleague, Jason Freedman, are involved with the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE).

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We must invest in programs like NFTE that inspire young people to think and act like entrepreneurs.

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Tomorrow NFTE releases a white paper that focuses on how to grow the global economy and reverse the troubling youth unemployment crisis.

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"Entrepreneurship education has the power to transform the lives of so many young people and prepare them in a unique way to be both the job creators and the workforce of the future, " said Amy Rosen, CEO of NFTE.

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The organization I lead, the Network for Teacher Entrepreneurship (NFTE), was founded by Steve Mariotti on one basic principle: teaching young people living in poverty how to create wealth for themselves is the surest path to poverty alleviation.

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