McDonald's workers learn cooking,financial skills

That's the headlines in the business section of my paper this week.  This is the nation's largest employer-provided financial education program with McDonald's teaming up with Visa to teach money-management skills to it's 500,000 restaurant employees.  McDonald's sees this as a quality-of-life and productivity issue.  Job performance is affected by good and bad choices made in the home.  (See www.practicalmoneyskills.com)  Then see my June 15th chat- the need for cookery schools in America.  This past week I made a small step by starting a new cooking co-op at work including my manager ( I knew his wife was a great cook).  We are an experiment to show others in our office the benefits of cooking in quantity one night then going home with dinner in hand the other 3 nights- benefits such as cost and time savings plus greater camaraderie in the office.  I have posted our menus in our break room and there's a little buzz going on.  Hopefully, more companies will take McDonald's lead and teach cooking and financial classes.  It might be considered a small step to sit down to 4 family meals/week at home but its "one small step for man... one giant leap for mankind."