A new study finds that residents of some Michigan cities have a harder time than others when it comes to managing money.
Detroit, Flint, Lansing and Battle Creek are among the cities with the worst money management skills in the state – but there’s another Michigan city that tops them all.
Do you even remember being taught back in high school how to manage your finances effectively? Yeah, us neither. We learned the Pythagorean Theorem, and all the names of the parts of a cell, but somehow we must have missed the stuff about credit scores and debt and how to manage our money.
Recognizing the Signs of a Bad Money Manager
The personal finance website WalletHub is out with its list of “Cities Where People Have the Best Money Management Skills (2025)”.
Data from more than 2,500 American cities was considered, with a focus on two key areas: debt level and financial behavior…