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How to Increase Financial Literacy? Start Young, Train Teachers
By the time students reach college and take on heavy debt loads, valuable lessons have been missed, PwC warns.
Why we will no longer be a welcoming church
We’ve decided to quit being a welcoming church. No kidding. We’re giving it up. Like so many congregations, we’ve sunk an amazing amount of time and energy into becoming a welcoming church. We changed worship styles, trained greeters and ushers, wore name tags, brewed coffee, went to workshops on hospitality and put our friendliest people …
How to Trust God With Your Decisions and Stop Looking for Neon Signs From Above
Decision making is no fun. Especially when the decisions we’re struggling with could have life changing or drastic repercussions, or at a minimum have lots of pros and cons to consider. That’s why in my Proverbs 31 devotion running today, I shared about being frustrated with having so many important decisions to make, and how I …
Which SD hotels earn top Auto Club rating?
Four San Diego County hotels made it onto the Automobile Club’s 2016 ranking of five-diamond properties, joining an elite group of some 118 hotels in United States and Canada.
Here’s what the health-care vote means for financial markets
Investors are looking to the looming health care vote to answer questions about stocks and other financial markets.
How They Started: State Farm Insurance
Source: Jayleen R. Heft, PropertyCasualty360.com State Farm was founded in 1922 in the small farming town of Bloomington, Ill. G.J. Mecherle, the founder of the company, didn’t think it was fair that he and his fellow farmers and families in rural communities paid the same auto insurance rates as those in Chicago. Just days after the …
April Is Financial Literacy Month
With millions of Americans facing a financial crisis in retirement, getting better educated on the challenges ahead makes eminent sense. April is financial literacy awareness month, and provides a great opportunity to focus on your individual situation.
What is Financial Literacy?
What is financial literacy? To me, financial literacy means being able to understand and analyze financial products in order to make smart decisions about what to do with your money. That shouldn’t be controversial, right? Well, the more I think about financial literacy, the more conflicted I get. Read on for why, and for a heavy dose of computer age nostalgia. Growing up geek I wrote my first computer programs in the early 1980s on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A using the BASIC programming…
Debt Management: Financial Advice for Young Investors
What is good debt and bad debt, and how can investors practice good habits with credit cards and find ways to pay down debt?
Financial Literacy 101 for Students
Are you a college student or recent grad? Get smart about managing your finances. Check out our tips to help you make smart financial decisions.
Financial Literacy 101 for Students
Are you a college student or recent grad? Get smart about managing your finances. Check out our tips to help you make smart financial decisions.
Why Financial Literacy Fails
I'm often asked what I'd do to improve financial literacy in the United States. The premise seems to be that if we teach young people about compound interest and two-cycle billing, this information will lead them to make better financial choices. I'm not convinced.
How advisors are advancing financial literacy
RIAs snag annual FP Pro Bono Awards for innovative programs.
Helpful Ways to Improve Your Financial Literacy and Knowledge
While we all wish we could have the financial knowledge of Warren Buffett, that isn’t the case. In fact, it is quite the opposite. There are a variety of stats out there that seem to show that America actually has a bit of a problem when it comes to their financial knowledge and literacy. Without …
Why financial literacy should be taught in every school
Financial literacy is non-intuitive to the human brain and fundamental to survival today. We should follow British Columbia's example and make financial literacy mandatory in every grade - across the country.
Learning How to Use Technology for Financial Literacy
I need to attend the annual MECA technology conference to help with financial literacy. I am a first grade teacher at a public school. My students are excited about learning and want to excel in sc...
Why Americans Are So Terrible at Financial Literacy
American students spend about 1,000 hours in school each year, and yet very few, if any, of those hours are dedicated to learning about personal finance.
Three tips to improve financial literacy among clients
Guide them through the mass of available information
Financial Literacy Tips for Your Little Entrepreneur |
In order to help your little entrepreneur achieve their goals, we’ve put together a few tips and tricks to help your kidpreneur earn and manage money!
How to solve our financial literacy crisis
There is an urgent need for greater financial literacy throughout America, but especially within the African American market. Here are the reasons why.
