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US schools get failing grade for financial literacy education

Click here: “To be successful, most kids don’t need to learn about collateralized debt instruments, but they do need to know how to open a bank account, how much they need to save each month to reach their goals and, if they borrow this amount of money, how much money they will need to earn to pay it back.”
-Nan Morrison, president and CEO, Council for Economic Education