Financial Literacy Month: 6 Steps to Raising Money Savvy Kids
If a child received a string of failing grades in math class, or could only properly comprehend what they were reading less than 50% of the time, they would likely be facing some pretty dire...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy Month: Important Knowledge for Young Adults
A lot of exciting events take place between the ages of 18 and 30. You may start college, begin your first job, get married, and purchase your first home. While this age range brings many rites of...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy Month: Planning for the Future in Your 30s and 40s
If you’ve followed Penny Pincher’s advice in her post on retirement planning before you turn 30, congratulations, you are probably well on your way to accumulating assets for that day when you will...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy Month: Planning for Your 50s and Beyond
If you’re like most of us, at a certain point in your 50s you’ll look in the mirror and realize that the person staring back at you needs to start thinking about retirement planning. Phasing out of the...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy Month: What Our Parents Taught Us About Finances
Photo by Spirit-Fire via flickr In honor of Financial Literacy Month, The Dime bloggers took a walk down memory lane to reflect on the financial lessons they took away from their parents. Here are a...
View ArticleDoes Preaching Financial Literacy Actually Create Change?
Photo by MIKI Yoshihito, via flickr April is Financial Literacy Month. And while knowledge in many cases is power, I would say that the jury is still out on whether just preaching the tenants of...
View ArticleFinancial Literacy Month: Tips for Any Age
Retirement may be the center of our universe at PERA, but we know that establishing stable financial footing doesn’t begin and end with planning for life after your working years. It is part of a...
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