According to the U.S. Department of the Treasury, “the Treasurer of the United States has direct oversight over the U.S. Mint, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and Fort Knox and is a key liaison with the Federal Reserve. In addition, the Treasurer serves as a senior advisor to the Secretary in the areas of community development and public engagement.” In 2017, Steven Mnuchin became the Treasury of the United States. He has a bachelor’s degree and a background in finance.
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Interview with Rosie Rios, 43rd Treasurer of the United States.
The Treasury of the United States is actually the second oldest position in the administration, right behind the President. It’s older than the Vice President and it’s older than the secretary of the Treasury. In fact it’s older than Treasury itself. I oversee the Bureau of Gaming and Printing and the U.S. Mint. So it’s where we produce the coins and the money.
I oversee the Bureau of Gaming and Printing and the U.S. Mint. So it’s where we produce the coins and the money. Coin and currency really represent one of the last ways that we can preserve our history and our American tradition. Every note has a story. If you look on the back of currency, you’ll see that there’s a building and on the front, you’ll see that there is a picture of a notable person in our history. And the same thing with our coins.
So for example our latest quarter series, the America the Beautiful Quarter Series, which highlights a different monument in each state. It’s always fun to think about what is it that we can do to update and change our coin and currency to reflect what’s happening in the country.
A lot of people learn math through money. So you’ll see in a lot of schools they use coins, they use a lot of different tools to make sure that people get the basics down about how math works. That’s another fun piece of the job as well. Whether you want to run your own business, whether you want to be in the public sector like me, whether you want to run a non-profit, whatever you choose to do, that foundation of math and business is going to be very, very helpful for you.
Especially for young girls and they don’t hear it enough. It is so important to get a good, fundamental education and strength. Not just a fundamental education, but a strength in math because it really does work your mind in a way that’s very balanced and it also provides a very good perspective on basically whatever career you’re going to choose.
For more information, you can check out the following websites (links open in a new tab):
- Bureau of Engraving and Printing at moneyfactory.gov
- United States Mint at usmint.gov
- United States Mint page for kids at usmint.gov/learn/kids
- Department of the Treasury at home.treasury.gov
Article Citations
U.S. Department of the Treasury. The Treasurer. About.
United States Senate 2005 CRS Report for Congress.
The career video is in the Public Domain and originally hosted on Kids.gov which is now USA.gov, an interagency product administered by USAGov, a division of the U.S. General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service.
