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Fourth-Grade Students Take 'Bank Bound' Field Trips to Local Financial Institutions
Foundation: Lapeer County Community Foundation
Over 850 fourth-grade students in Lapeer County participated in a field trip to a local bank or credit union in their hometown.
The LEAF account program is a Children's Savings Account Program courtesy of LCCF.
The research is in children with a savings account between $1 and $500 are three times more likely to graduate from high school, and four times more to pursue and achieve a higher educational level.
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