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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). How to Conduct an Effective Family Financial Analysis. Cooking to Financial Success.

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Meet a Reader | M from the PNW

The Frugal Girl

When my husband finished his apprenticeship program we wanted to start a family and so we had to make some real changes to the way we were living to survive on one income. Mostly anything I (or my family) want to eat I can make from scratch. Financing a fun car we didn’t need was an obvious dumb move in hindsight.

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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

’ 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. Even today, many are still unemployed or underemployed.