JALA CARE set to launch
When I worked at JALA, the Consumer Unit was beginning to assemble a truly innovative project to get lawyers involved in educating high school students about the responsible use of credit. That project is ready to launch next month. Check out the whole article in the Daily Record. I’m certain this will be a model program, begging to be replicated in many, many places.
“It is rather difficult for young people to realize what the consequences of overspending can be,” said Duval County Judge Roberto Arias, who is a certified instructor with the program. “For example, what happens a lot of times if you don’t pay one credit card on time then all your other credit cards usually have provisions in their contracts that allow them to increase their interest rates to the maximum amount after they find out you missed a payment on another card.”
Arias decided to get involved with the program because he is a father of high school-aged kids and he saw the credit offers start to come in the mail for his kids. And, many of the cases that are coming into his courtroom involve people who don’t understand credit.