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US Presidents and Personal Finance

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Some of our presidents didn’t really have it all together on the personal level. I wonder if that could be part of our national debt problem. We toured Monticello in 2005 and learned that Thomas Jefferson, one of my favorite presidents died a pauper. Grant also did poorly in personal finance. He earned 1.57

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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

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. On March 28, 2012 the Senate passed Resolution 409 that officially recognized April as National Financial Literacy Month.