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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

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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. This post was written by Marie.

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Mourning the Loss of Privacy

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Don’t forget to enter to win an iPad 3 here at PET. Consumer Affairs reported that in 2005, CVS posted purchases made by holders of their loyalty card). Remember when your social security number wasn’t assigned at birth? Through the years, any public or private institution needing a unique personal identifier used SSN.

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