Teaching about Money
JumpStart, a national coalition of financial education organizations, tested high school seniors on financial literacy: the average score was an F-! No wonder young adults get caught up in the credit trap right out of school.
I see financial illiteracy in their parents, as well. So many of my clients seem to measure their financial management skills by their ability to make the minimum payments on overwhelming credit card debt on time. Too few of them have considered that it may take 30-40 years to pay off credit card debt making minimum payments. Meanwhile, they have no cash reserves and no retirement savings.
As a society, we have a real reluctance to speak openly even within our families about money matters. Our kids grow up knowing only what we tell them about how they manage their money, not about the financial realities of our family money situation. Educating kids about money is not just a task for the schools; it needs to be discussed and modeled at home.
I don’t believe that a more money savvy populace will necessarily significantly lower the rates of bankruptcy filings; bankruptcy is driven in the most part by illness, job loss, and divorce. I can hope that consumers with some financial skills may recognize earlier that they can’t escape their money woes by making minimum payments, and consider a fresh start sooner.
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March 11th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
[...] Individually and societally we would be better off with more openness about personal finance. As I wrote earlier,we should practice candor about money with our kids. Collectively, have an honest dialogue about the role of credit in our economy and about the massive transfer of money from the middle class to the financial industry in the form of credit card interest, fees and penalties. Look at the extent to which borrowing on credit cards has replaced a societal safety net. [...]
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