Kentucky students should be required to earn half a credit in financial literacy before they graduate from high school…That’s what a financial counselor with the Bell-Whitley County Community Action Agency told state lawmakers in Frankfort Monday.
Norman Cornelius is the agency’s housing director and advises young couples on home finance…
Cornelius says some students start college with state grants but then drop out of school and use the money for a major purchase, like a car. Most of them, he says, are sorry later.