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Maybe that's why consumers don't mind they are pay be so much for prepaid debit cards. the amount put on tripled from 2008 to 2012 and expected to top $168 billion by 2015. that's a lot of money. nearly the gdp of kuwait or romania and enough to by 131 double-decker planes. industry trade groups say parents use them to teach kids about financial responsibility but financial advisers say there are better ways to do that. >> prepaid debit cards are spending money to use your own money but they don't necessarily fix your credit and it's too expensive. >> if you don't have a checking account, look...

Time of day. >> a lot of people think when we talk about membership you have to be a member, you have to work for a company to be a part of their credit union. can anyone -- can i walk up to any credit union and say i want to be a member? i want to get a loan? >> there's a credit union for everybody. it has opened up in the last decade so more people can join credit unions. we have a great resource for them, for anybody who wants to know about a credit union, smarterchoice.org. answer three simple questions about where you live, work and worship. you can find out which credit union you belong ...

To be a member? i want to get a loan? >> there's a credit union for everybody. it has opened up in the last decade so more people can join credit unions. we have a great resource for them, for anybody who wants to know about a credit union, smarterchoice.org. answer three simple questions about where you live, work and worship. >> paul, thank you so much for giving us credit union 101. i appreciate it. after running your company for a while, it's not uncommon to get a little sluggish about things. but let that feeling take over and your business is going to start heading in the wrong directi...

suze orman, the good, bad and ugly of the celebrity branded cards. we begin with jobs and how to get big business to make more of them. to hear the corporate members of the president's jobs council explain it, the problem is not creating jobs, it's creating qualified workers. ge's ceo jeff immelt who runs the council for the president told him his week, again, there is no silver bullet to create jobs now. and at the white house, executives worried about the quality of america's work force. >> we're desperate trying to hire more people but it has to be people who have the technical sk...