For years, representatives of financial institutions have gone into schools with piggy bank programs to introduce the importance of savings to young children in the hope of establishing positive, life long financial habits. This tells me that financial literacy isn’t new. What is new is the significant attention being given to financial literacy. It is correctly recognized as the remedy for a number of maladies including bankruptcy, predatory lending, the wealth gap, low self-esteem, even stress.
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Table of Contents
Editor’s Notebook
Lena Robinson
Using the Media to Deliver Financial Education
Viola Bostick
Youth Credit Unions
Ronald Wilson
Compliance Corner: Avoiding Common Pitfalls of Data Collection
Donald R. Narup
District Update
The Association of Reinvestment Consortia for Housing
Fred Mendez
Selling Affordable Multifamily Mortgages
George Vine