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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). Share what you know and do with those around you to help the nation become more financially literate!

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Stay the Course Financially

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My grandchildren’s other set of grandparents are just one example. San Francisco’s Federal Reserve published a report: Consumers and the Economy, Part I: Household Credit and Personal Saving examining the relationship between the availability of credit and the household savings rate.