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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

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There’s Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Grandparents Day, Nurses Day, Bosses Day, Administrative Assistant’s Day, Breast Cancer Awareness Day, Black History Month and now – since 2004, Financial Literacy Month. Why do we need it?

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8 Ways to Prevent Identity Theft

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

According to an inspection done by the US Postal Service in 2004, there were over 10 million cases of identity theft in one year alone. Gosh I would hate to hear what the numbers are now in 2011. Did you know that identity theft is the fastest growing crime in North America?! 10 million…isn’t that crazy?