What is the TEEN New Deal?

The “TEEN New Deal” is an interactive book for youth that includes a 12-step plan to give America a “big gift” in 2026, America’s 250th birthday.

The gift that the “TEEN New Deal” represents is composed of three solutions which would be achieved through federal legislation, a nationwide law:

TEEN New Deal Component 1 – STUDENT PAY (financial literacy)

• Students should be paid to attend school with digital currency, using blockchain technology, and parents should have access to their child’s earnings based on student age. The younger a student is, the more access parents should have and each year the student gets older, parent access decreases.

TEEN New Deal Component 2 – STUDENT GOVERNMENT (civics & government literacy)

• Student Government Associations should be mandatory at all schools to prepare youth to enter the political process, with weighted parental votes, by voting on school-based issues.

TEEN New Deal Component 3 – STUDENT MEDIA (media literacy)

• Students should have access to age-appropriate media programming (radio, television, internet, etc.) on a closed-circuit (accessible/visible only to youth & school staff inside school building) so that students can learn how to navigate media (social media specifically) more responsibly.

The TEEN New Deal has two ultimate solutions: (1) compensate, incentivize, and reward students for better academic and moral labor at school; and (2) increase more desirable outcomes within society while decreasing social ills (i.e. racism, crime/violence, economic inequity, etc.). Using the TEEN New Deal, students can be compensated & incentivized, while being taught & rewarded to become better adults & citizens, leading to a more harmonious society.