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Never has a generation of young people spent so much money yet understood so little about how to manage it. Over the past decade, the average credit-card debt of Americans ages 18 to 24 doubled, to nearly $3,000. Among high school seniors, 4 out of 5 have never taken a personal-finance class, but nearly half have an ATM debit card, and more than a quarter have bounced a check, according to a survey of 5,775 teens, released in April by the nonprofit JumpStart Coalition for Financial Literacy. If those trends continue, declaring bankruptcy could become...
...certifies that it has grounds, it may also collect more information, such as the customer's name, address and billing information. Last year the FBI issued 9,254 such orders, known as National Security Letters, to obtain information about 3,501 people from banks and phone, Internet and credit-card companies...
...watching their monthly mortgage bills jump dramatically, from $1,000 a month to $1,200, for instance, for the average-size $150,000 loan. For homeowners struggling to handle those payments while shouldering rising costs for health care, gas and education (not to mention higher rates on their credit-card debt), trouble is almost inevitable...
...plus. They can accommodate the demands of a multi-job worker, convene around the bedside of an ailing member and undertake big initiatives with dispatch, as in the case of a group in the Northwest that reportedly yearned to do social outreach but found that every member had heavy credit-card debt. An austerity campaign yielded a balance with which to help the true poor...
...somewhere (risking witnesses and closed-circuit-television cameras) and steal things that have a real weight and presence, like jewels or money. These days, it's easier and safer by far to sit in some semitropical Margaritaville, fire up the laptop and do a bit of identity theft or credit-card fraud. Banks are for those with eyes bigger than their brains. "Bank robbers," says Robinson, "are basically idiots. They went in, and they found £40 million sitting there, and they got greedy. If they had taken £4 million, they could probably have walked away and disappeared...