AP Business with Personal Finance teacher Gerri Kimble talks with students about their part time jobs and saving their earnings at Hoover High School on October 6, 2026.
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We take you inside an AP personal finance class in Alabama where students are learning about Roth IRAs and compound interest. As states add personal finance classes, should business be more woven into the liberal arts?
Fact checking by Sierra Juarez.
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