Nov 27
Education, Scholarship No Comments
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has announced that due to an overwhelming response, it is extending the test-taking window for the fall National Financial Literacy Challenge until December 12, 2008. The Challenge is a 35-question online test of personal finance knowledge and understanding for high school students across the United States. Teachers can sign [...]
Nov 27
Operation HOPE founder John Hope Bryant made the following statement commending HUD action to simplify HUD mortgage “Good Faith Estimate”:
On May 28th, 2008, the President’s Council on Financial Literacy, Committee on the Under-Served, held its first ever meeting at the U.S. Department of the Treasury around financial literacy and “the future of responsible mortgage subprime [...]
Oct 28
Finance Education, Financial Aid No Comments
Citi’s Office of Financial Education will sponsor forty leading youth financial literacy advocates from throughout New England to gather at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on October 27-29 to discuss educational strategies that should be implemented to increase the financial literacy of New England youth. This first-ever New England Youth Financial Education Forum, organized [...]
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