Abilene Reporter-News: "WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than half of students at four-year colleges - and at least 75 percent at two-year colleges - lack the literacy to handle complex, real-life tasks such as understanding credit card offers, a study found."
One more example of America's slide to mediocrity. I have long maintained that teens in high school should be offered a course in basic economics to understand how our economy functions, at least at the consumer level. Such a course would include basic finiancial and 'getting on with life' skills that today are usually acquired by osmosis, if at all.
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