The Service Employees International Union, never shy in its criticism of credit card issuers, announced Wednesday a video contest for students who want to spread the union's manifesto.The contest is called Keep It In Your Pants, as in Keep Your Credit Card in Your Pants. The union is trying to draw attention to what it calls "Debt Disease" among young people. "You can't tell if someone has it ... It only takes one time to catch it," the union says in a statement, by way of attracting contestants.
College students are vulnerable to credit-card debt, the union said, since banks market heavily to them. "Including the nation's largest bank by deposits, Bank of America," the union said, singling out the Charlotte bank.
The video contest is open to students in middle school, high school, college and grad school.
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