TEACHING YOUR TEEN FINANCIAL LITERACY
August 28, 2008
August 28, 2008
BLUE SPRINGS, Mo., Aug. 28 -- The University of Missouri College of Food & Natural Resources issued the following news release:
In a recent national survey of high school seniors' knowledge of basic personal finance and economic topics, students could answer only 48 percent of the questions correctly. "Adolescents clearly need a crash course in personal finance to prepare them for the future. Otherwise we are setting up a whole generation for financial failure," said . . .
In a recent national survey of high school seniors' knowledge of basic personal finance and economic topics, students could answer only 48 percent of the questions correctly. "Adolescents clearly need a crash course in personal finance to prepare them for the future. Otherwise we are setting up a whole generation for financial failure," said . . .