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“After graduation, a high debt burden relative to income can keep college graduates from the financial and professional opportunities that their education was supposed to provide.”

The Project on Student Debt by

The Institute for College Access & Success

August 31, 2007

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Michael J. Wagner

Preparing Young Adults for the Real World

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Hi, I’m Michael Wagner; thank you for visiting this site. I hope you will join me in my pursuit to prepare young adults with the tools of financial literacy. There is nothing that drives me more each and every day than helping young adults prepare for the real world and compete in the global economy.

While I am a strong proponent for young adults to excel in their formal education, I feel a proper education is not complete without a separate set of 'life skills.' With the changing emphasis in education, mastering personal finances will be one of the most important skills that young adults can and will need to control.

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Michael J. Wagner contributes to an article written by Chuck Bradford, "Does Finacial Literacy Matter? in Texas Guaranteed Student Loan Corporation's TG Connection.
Michael J. Wagner is quoted by Jean Chatzky in the New York Daily News, August 31, 2009

A Woman's Day 2009's Best Books on Personal Finance Selection: Woman's Day selects YOUR MONEY, DAY ONE as one of five best books for 2009.
"Michael J. Wagner MA. Ed. focuses on educating young adults to be knowledgeable about their finances. This book outlines in plain, simple language the ways money is given, ways to spend it, ways to save it and ways to increase it. This book is a great graduation gift for high school and college graduates."

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I've learned the most about money from:

	My parents
	School
	My own research
	Television
	Internet
	Books or magazines
	I don't know much about money

“You taught me a lot of things that I can take away and relate them to my own life. I'm excited to let my parents know that I am ready to START EARLY.”

Student, Orland Park, Illinois