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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

On March 28, 2012 the Senate passed Resolution 409 that officially recognized April as National Financial Literacy Month. 28 percent, or nearly 64,000,000 adults, admit to not paying all of their bills on time (according to the 2011 Consumer Financial Literacy Survey Final Report of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling).

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Stay the Course Financially

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My grandchildren’s other set of grandparents are just one example. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does a survey multiple times a year, called the Consumer Expenditure Survey. One of the most recent survey’s available reported: “Average expenditures per consumer unit1 for July 2014 through June 2015 were up 5.9