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Students Run a Credit Union Branch Inside Fowler High School

By Ryan Morden

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Syracuse, NY – Overhauling the rules that govern Wall Street is President Obama's top domestic priority. The goal is a top down approach to stabilizing the nation's finances. But what about shoring up fiscal stability on an individual basis in Central New York? A handful of credit unions in the area are using a bottom up approach to teach financial literacy to high schoolers by opening branches run by students directly in high schools. WRVO's Ryan Morden profiles Falcon Trust, a Cooperative Federal Credit Union branch in Syracuse's Fowler High School.

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