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Young women and money

PJ White · 24 September 2008 --> · No comments

Good article by Ruth Smith in Children and Young People Now. It looks at the financial realities of five young women from a YWCA project in Kent. Good to see their stories, their voices and their weekly budgets. Eighteen-year-old Cherelea simply says about her budget, “I still haven’t got the hang of it”. She probably [...]

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Tags: Managing money—education & learning · Money in the media

Guides want money management

PJ White · 25 July 2007 --> · No comments

What’s top of the list of skills young women want? Money management, according to Girlguiding UK. Virtually all (93%) of the 16 to 25-year-old guides surveyed named handling money as a skill that every modern girl should have. See the association’s press release.

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Tags: Research, policy & trends