Young People and Finance | GomesticYoung people have a problem with personal finances and there is a perfectly good reason. It isn’t taught in high school. Not the specifics, anyway. It is taught in a wider range of social studies but not in a way that matters in managing a person’s personal finances. Raising awareness is the first step in getting this situation corrected and also having teachers certified to teach personal finances. In a recent survey of high school students tested only 47 percent scored well. That leaves over 50 percent of high school grads out in the cold and victims of the financial system.
Will Reiser and The Big-c | Masthead/Will Reiser and Seth Rogen dined at the Ritz-Carlton in Buckhead last week and were interviewed by Melissa Ruggieri about Reiser’s bout with cancer. Reiser learned six years ago that he had spinal cancer. It was a bad bit of luck and scary to boot but Reiser’s friend, Rogen suggested he write a book about his confusion and pain. The book ended up being a movie called 50/50.
