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• Position: Stateline - Personal financial management education - Brief Article

The average student who graduates from high school lacks basic skills to manage his personal financial affairs, according to the JumpStart Coalition. Many teenagers are unable to balance a checkbook and have no insight into the basic survival principles involved with earning, spending, saving and investing. Too many young people fail in the management of their first consumer credit experience, establish bad financial management habits, and stumble through their lives...