talk to your child's school nurse or health-care provider, and visit voicesofmeningitis.org to learn more. low-interest credit cards nearly disappeared during the financial crisis, but are showing signs of making a comeback. jennifer waters of marketwatch.com has the scoop. good morning to you jen. > > good morning angie. > > how readily available are 0% credit cards? > > right now we're looking at some 40% of the big card issuers out there with some form of 0%. so that's pretty notable considering that, as you said, they just pulled the rug out from underneath them some time ago. they're out there, you can find them. you better have good credit though. > > what are some caveats? > > here's the biggest caveat, and that is that you get 0%. it's a teaser rate. it's usually 12 months. you can get some now, they're extending to as much as 18 months. so you have that 12 to 18 month period where you can have a purchase or a balance transferred, and you've got that time to pay it off at 0%. so it's almost like getting a free loan. but, if you slip up during that time, or your credit quality

hear ours at voicesofmeningitis.org.

hear ours at voicesofmeningitis.org. you know there was a time when people like me couldn't live here. i'll never forget being told i wasn't welcome in this neighborhood. well i own this building now, the fair housing act made a difference for someone like me. so i can choose where i want to live, free from discrimination. glad you could make it, right this way... the real signal that this hobbled economy of ours is finally healing itself will one day come in the job numbers. not yet the case, unfortunately. the august numbers, as you well know, came out on friday, and 96,000 new jobs really does not a robust recovery make. let's talk with brent schutte, he's vice president and market strategist at harris private bank. brent, you looked at the numbers. what do they tell you? unfortunately they're not a surprise. when we talked last month, we mentioned that europe and the fiscal cliff in the u.s. would likely keep employers on the sideline with new hirings, and i think these numbers reflect that. if you look down undernea