Tips for helping college students manage their money. Life after high school. Our children need to learn financial literacy, but they aren't finding it at school. Our schools are not teaching our children financial literacy and the long-term cost is dramatic. Why, and what you can do to make money management a mainstream subject.
Card issuers target teens for latest plastic attacks .
The number of teens is growing and so is their buying power. Credit card companies, having saturated the adult market, are going after this segment with secured and co-signed products. Some say it's a great way to teach kids before the can legally obtain cards on their own. Others say it's opening a can of worms. Targeting of students by credit card issuers angers lawmakers, college administrators and consumer groups.