January 24, 2007 by Wil.

From my original blog, Finance For Youth:  The Blog

www.finance4youth.wordpress.com

Let me start out by saying I really, really wanted to hate Bank of America.  I have worked in finance (banking) for a very long time, and everybody knows they just suck!  I knew I was going to be giving BofA a bad grade when it came to youth accounts.  Here’s what I came up with.

When rating financial institutions for their benefit for youth, I looked specifically at the products they offer on their websites dedicated to students and youth.  I looked at seven criteria, and compared with other institutions.  Since I don’t bank with them, I did not rate them on customer service or satisfaction, two areas that are very important to me.

Comments:  I like especially that the account is free while you are a student.  This is of paramount importance to my readers.  Offering to waive monthly fees for Direct Deposit or Online Bill Pay, as well as offering a free online Bill Pay program really helped.  They seem to offer programs with features that make sense for today’s youth.  As much as I wanted to hate them, they Came out pretty good here.

Great job, Bof A!

Coming up, Wells Fargo.  Did they do as well?

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January 20, 2007 by Wil.

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January 18, 2007 by Wil.

I got this post from LifeHacker.  This is a great feature for those of you who want a computer to be able to do any work, but don’t want to, or can’t afford to deal with Windows or Mac OS.  I plan getting this (and I will trade them for a pretty good donation!) and check out the software on an old laptop I just acquired.  These guys are on our side here, and I’m really stoked to check out the product.

http://lifehacker.com/software/students/download-of-the-day-software-for-starving-students-winmac-225341.php

to see the post on LifeHacker

http://softwarefor.org/downloads.html to get directly to the site. 

Once again, if you can afford to, please donate to these people if you get their product.  I remember being a student, and this would have been awesome if it existed then.

Until next time, I’ll keep looking!

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January 11, 2007 by Wil.

If you have seen my other sites www.finance4youth.wordpress.com

www.myspace.com/finance4youth

www.finance4youth.com

you will see that they all have similar (if not exactly the same) information.  Finance For Youth: Keeping an eye out for you is a little different.  This blog will be mostly links to other blogs that will have information or products of use to teenagers or young adults.  There is a lot of information out there, some of it is pretty good, some of it is total crap, and some of it is GOLD for young people.  I’m striving for the GOLD, but don’t get to upset if I only hit pretty good.

If you have tips other than those I encourage you to email me and let me know

wil@finance4youth.com

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