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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). What are you doing to observe National Financial Literacy Month? .

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Stay the Course Financially

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My grandchildren’s other set of grandparents are just one example. Recent graduates were also hard hit. History has shown us, though, that good times, easy money and easy credit can quickly change us into spenders. ” The survey released in 2010 indicated: “Average annual expenditures per consumer unit1 fell 2.0