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Military personnel speak up for beleaguered consumer agency

Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume February 17, 2017

Consumer advocates working to save the Consumer Financial Protection Agency from being limited or dismantled by Congress got some unexpected help this week. The U.S.

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$2M donation will create financial education center in Bismarck

February 17, 2017

Learning the complexities of money management, budgeting and loans can be scary for high school students. Too often, students lack knowledge of personal finance and

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Director Richard Cordray Remarks at Financial Literacy and Education Commission

February 16, 2017

Good morning. I am glad to welcome everyone here to the Financial Literacy and Education Commission for our first meeting of the year. The commission

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Courage, not Literacy, Key to Financial Wellness

February 16, 2017

Helping employees become more confident about engaging in financial matters—improving their financial courage—is more critical than employers providing benefits that focus solely on financial education,

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Questioning the Value of Financial Education

February 14, 2017

As the focus over the last several decades has been on financial education and literacy, an emerging body of behavioral economics research is illustrating how

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4 in 5 financial advisers in Australia willing to volunteer coaching financial literacy

February 14, 2017

Latest straw poll shows that 83.8 per cent of the 314 advisers surveyed would be interested in teaching financial literacy to school students.

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Quebec high school finance course ‘concocted by the banks,’ according to unions

February 13, 2017

A proposed personal finance course for Quebec high-school students is pitting teachers unions against the government and a financial industry that want people to be

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Junior Achievement Worldwide Launches A Version In Ghana

February 13, 2017

Junior Achievement (JA) Ghana a member of JA Worldwide, one of the largest organizations in the world dedicated to youth entrepreneurship is happy to announce

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