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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

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Forty-one percent of adults in the United States gave themselves a grade of C, D, or F on their knowledge of personal finance (according to the 2011 Consumer Financial Literacy Survey Final Report of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling).

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5 Steps to Succeeding Your Goals

Family Balance Sheet

As I planned my goals for 2012, I realized that I made only one goal for myself in 2011. Once I became pregnant with our first daughter in 2005, at the ripe old age of 35, I stopped running completely and took up walking. In October 2011, I finished my first half-marathon. Thank you for supporting Family Balance Sheet!

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