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Article: Teens and green: school ATMs have some seeing red.(News Debate)(automated teller machines)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- September 10, 2004
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Forget your lunch money? Yearn for a yearbook? Need to pay off the school bully? No problem. Just head down the hall to your school's automated teller machine, more commonly known as the ATM. What? Your school doesn't have one yet? It might soon.
According to Teenage Research Unlimited (TRU), ATMs in schools are one of the latest ways to tap the teen market. "Everybody knows that teens have disposable incomes, so it sort of makes sense;' said Rob Callender, a trend manager for the research group.
A TRU study last fall found that 17 percent of U.S. teens have debit cards, and about one in 50 teens age 15 or older has an ATM at school. Because teens aren't ...