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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

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The number of personal bankruptcy filings reached 1,500,000 in 2010, the highest number since 2005, and in 2011, the percentage of total consumer filings increased from 2010 (according to the National Bankruptcy Research Center).

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Stay the Course Financially

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’ While there is some macro economic sense in consumer spending causing an impact on the country’s growth, it doesn’t necessarily play well at the individual consumer finance level. personal saving rate bottomed out at around 1% in the third quarter of 2005. percent in 2010 following a decrease of 2.8