[AMERICAN-STATESMAN] Gifting Grads with Financial Literacy

By Nikki Graham and Kristin Gossett - Special to the American-Statesman

An estimated of 67 percent of Texas graduates will start out post-collegiate life with the looming hardship of paying off an average student debt of $30,180. So while they may have immersed themselves in computer engineering, business and political science, few have earned even a single credit on what is likely their most immediate and toughest test: their financial burdens.