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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...
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Financial 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...
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Money Matters: Millennials are Motivated But Not Educated
Photo by Tax Credits, via flickr Millennials, the generation loosely classified as those born between 1980 and 2000, are faced with an interesting financial conundrum – they have the motivation to take...
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Financial Tips, Tools and Resources for Millennials
Photo by StockMonkeys.com I am a millennial. I never learned a thing about personal finance in school and graduated without knowing how to balance my checkbook or why I should even care. I make every...
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Things We’d Tell Our Younger Selves About Money
Hindsight is always 20/20, but if The Dime team had the chance to go back in time, this is what we would tell our naïve younger selves about money. Common Cents: I moved to Colorado at the age of 22,...
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College Bound: Teaching Teens Financial Basics Before They Leave the Nest
Photo by CollegeDegrees360, via flickr So you are about to send your sweet baby out into the real world. The one they call college. Let’s be honest, college is NOT the real world. It’s the world where...
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Financial Literacy: Starting the Conversation
Remember some of the useless classes you took in junior high school? For me this included archery (loved it), and sewing (hated Photo by stevendepolo, via flickr it). I mean, unless I wanted to go...
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Does 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...
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Financial 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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Money Lessons: Teaching Kids Through Games & Apps
Photo by PTMoney, via flickr If your kids are like mine, they just think you can go to the store and buy whatever you want because money comes from this magical place called your wallet. Teaching kids...
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