Sponsor
Audience-funded nonprofit news
radio tower icon laist logo
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
Subscribe
  • Listen Now Playing Listen
Off-Ramp

Sammy Rabbit Says to Students: Start Saving!

Sammy Rabbit talks to students at KIPP Raices Academy.
Sammy Rabbit talks to students at KIPP Raices Academy.
(
Josh Rogosin/Marketplace Money
)

About the Show

Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.

Funding provided by:

Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Listen 4:37
Sammy Rabbit Says to Students: Start Saving!
Marketplace Money's Tess Vigeland drops in on the KIPP Raices Academy in East Los Angeles to witness their new money education program aimed at their Kindergarten through Second Grade classes. During her visit, about 40 students packed into a classroom to see family-finance author Sam Renick and costumed-sidekick Sammy Rabbit explain the importance of saving.

Tess Vigeland -- host of Marketplace Money -- drops in on the KIPP Raices Academy in East Los Angeles to learn about its money education program. It's aimed at Kindergarten through Second Grade classes. 40 students learned about saving money from family-finance author Sam Renick and costumed-sidekick Sammy Rabbit.

CLICK THROUGH to see Sam and Sammy in action with students.