Teach kids to be smart consumers

Source: Liz Weston, Nerdwallet (South Bend Tribune)

Most financial literacy efforts in schools don’t improve people’s behavior later in life. That could be because we’re focusing on the wrong things. Trying to teach teenagers how to shop for a mortgage, for example, may be an exercise in futility. The information simply isn’t relevant to them—yet.

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