Jackson Gets New Look

The newly designed $20 bill will start showing up at banks, stores and automated teller machines next month, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin said Tuesday. The new bill is aimed at making it tougher for computer-savvy counterfeiters to produce fakes. The Treasury Department is launching a campaign to make sure people can tell between bonafide and bogus bills. The new notes, with a larger and off-center portrait of Andrew Jackson will be issued Sept. 24. The north side of the White House will appear on the reverse, and the denomination will appear in large dark numerals on a light background, to help people with poor vision. The bills have a watermark in the shape of the portrait, visible when the bills are held to the light. They also have an embedded plastic security thread that glows under ultraviolet light.