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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

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). Your children know that you are saving money.

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Mourning the Loss of Privacy

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Did you know a time when there weren’t cameras on every street corner and in every store, bank and business, clicking your picture and noting the time. (In Consumer Affairs reported that in 2005, CVS posted purchases made by holders of their loyalty card). What I eat and buy at the grocery used to be my own business.

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