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The Clark Howard Podcast

8.23.18 Is college for everyone?; Facebook wants your banking info; SIM card hacking

The Clark Howard Podcast

Clark Howard

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.65.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2018

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Vocational training is roaring back into some school districts and calls into question the seemingly common notion that college is valuable for everyone; Facebook met with major banks asking for your banking information. Really!?; SIM card hacking is one of the worst scams around right now. Clark explains.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you and that wall of

0:10.3

yours.

0:11.3

I want you to learn ideas so you can keep more of what you make and you can follow me

0:15.5

at facebook.com slash Clark Howard speaking of Facebook.

0:20.1

It's part of today's Clark Rages moment coming up in a few minutes.

0:24.5

You're not going to believe what Facebook and the banks are cooking up to your harm.

0:32.2

And coming up later.

0:34.3

Speaking of your harm, there's so much going wrong with criminals with the information

0:40.2

available from the Equifax Data breach trying to take over your accounts and steal money

0:46.9

out of your bank and brokerage accounts.

0:50.0

Well, there's a new line of defense that I want to make sure you are aware of because

0:56.8

you're not being told about it and it may really surprise you.

1:01.8

So I am such a big fan of the advantage for the roughly two and three people in America

1:12.2

who don't get a college degree to look at getting specific skills that are in much

1:19.6

demand in the marketplace.

1:22.8

And Tennessee, which has led the way with free technical college for Tennessee residents,

1:31.3

which is a very forward thinking smart idea to provide a knowledgeable, trained workforce

1:39.2

for employers begging for workers is digging a step further and experimenting with bringing

1:48.9

all training into the later years of high school.

1:54.7

It's almost like what's old is new again because that used to be very common in high schools

2:01.3

up to about 20 years ago that people in high school could learn job skills that they could

2:09.0

immediately leave and go get a job after getting their high school diploma already skilled

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