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This article expresses how health literacy and the understanding of that concept has changed through the past years. People are more aware of poor health, and of poor literacy. There are new researches, and other things being done to help those with poor health literacy and other things

The authors discuss how college students' overreliance on credit cards and accumulated student loans have left many graduates with outstanding debt and poor credit scores. Credit card companies aggressively solicit college students, who are enticed by the power a credit card grants. Upon graduation, students with large sums of debt may find it difficult to find a job or rent property due to poor credit. To counter this surge of irresponsibility, the authors propose colleges create programs to educate students on how to use a credit card responsibly. The problem with creating more programs is universities must spend extra funds to create and maintain such an initiative. The authors fail to propose an early education curriculum for younger children to immerse them in the area of personal finance.

this is an artical i found when looking at negative efects friends can have on eachoother, especially in an academic setting. it basically just gives examples of how things like rejection from peers can lead to poor academics and life choices. Good study with solid information to back it up.

Rabb discusses how the No Child Left Behind Act has been underfunded leaving the teachers unqualified and underprepared to teach the necessary material for standardized testing. This is one of the reasons students have still received poor results in standardized test scores. Also, there has been such an emphasis on reading and mathematics that students are performing even worse in other subjects.

This article focuses on the financial education of American consumers. The researchers have labeled Americans as having excess debt, poor retirement planning and insufficient savings. They believe one answer to the financial problems facing Americans has to do with the amount of financial information available. In some cases credit cards provide too much information and technical terms which may confuse the consumer. On the other hand when there is too little information the consumer may not be able to make proper choices.

This article mainly discusses the way that poverty is effecting people. It focuses a lot on the undeveloped countries and the way people are living in poverty. It also explains different aspects of health literacy and gives background information about it. It also talks about how people living in poverty struggle with health literacy.