Three Things to Keep in Mind as Financial Literacy Month Ends

Before National Financial Literacy Month ends on Friday, it’s worth noting a few developments.

The nation’s premier financial literacy organization, the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, which sponsored Financial Literacy Day on the Hill this week, still includes as a corporate partner the subprime lender CompuCredit. More…

Ties Run Deep Between Subprime Lenders, Financial Literacy Groups

As a credit squeeze continues, calls to beef up financial literacy among America’s consumers are taking on a new urgency.

In Massachusetts, Democratic Senate candidate Stephen Pagliuca is pushing for a national financial literacy campaign, saying it would help avoid a repeat of the financial system collapse More…

Financial Literacy Coalition Teams Up With Subprime Lender

The JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, a national nonprofit advocacy group that aims to improve the financial management skills of America’s youth, draws lots of attention for its surveys measuring how much kids really understand money. Last spring, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke More…