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US Presidents and Personal Finance

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I wonder if that could be part of our national debt problem. This, even though he inherited 3,000 acres and several dozen slaves from his father! Grant also did poorly in personal finance. He ended up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt and only salvaged his estate by selling (after his death) his civil war memoirs.

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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.