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Young American ditching credit cards

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What has the Great Recession done to our collective consciousness? A lot, probably. But one palpable impact of the recession is that young people are ditching credit cards. Rightfully so, 18- to 29-year-olds are fearful of debt and everything that comes with it. Will this hurt them when they need to be building credit?