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Date Added: July 21, 2008 01:48:03 AM
Kids generally get a bad rap when it comes to their knowledge of personal finance. In the 2008 survey of high school seniors by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, the average score was 48 percent, down from 52 percent in 2006.

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