Credit lessons
Bank of America volunteer speaks to FYE students on ins and outs of credit
As an attendance sheet floated around the room, one by one the students in a University of Delaware First Year Experience (FYE) class signed their names, wrote down their home states (New York, Pennsylvania and beyond), and were quick to mark a check in the “Did not have high school personal finance class” column.
Yet minutes later by a show of raised hands, the vast majority of the students acknowledged they use a debit card, credit card or both. (more…)