by FinancialCorps | Nov 23, 2015 | Commentary, Insight
The campaign trail continues to heat up for the 2016 U.S. presidential race, and among the leading themes dominating conversations and town hall sessions are the rising costs of college, student loan burdens, and overall financial capability of Americans. With student...
by FinancialCorps | Nov 12, 2015 | Commentary
In its continuing effort to improve consumer financial education, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released its third Financial Literacy Annual Report to the United States Congress detailing the CFPB’s various activities in which it engaged to enhance...
by FinancialCorps | Nov 6, 2015 | Commentary, News, Uncategorized
The financial education community is buzzing over legislation passed by the Michigan Senate that requires high school students to complete a course in economic and financial literacy in order to graduate. While the state’s school code already permits students to...
by FinancialCorps | Oct 30, 2015 | Commentary, News
The global financial literacy community is buzzing over the announcement by MassMutual that it will commit $100 million to financial education, with funding to its affiliate Society of Grownups, which is a learning initiative focused on improving the financial...
by FinancialCorps | Oct 26, 2015 | Commentary
The financial literacy industry was buzzing over Fifth Third Bank’s announcement that it is sponsoring 170,000 students to receive financial education during this 2015-2016 school year, underwriting the deployment of Dave Ramsey’s Foundations in Personal Finance...
by FinancialCorps | Oct 20, 2015 | Commentary, News
On the heels of results of a national survey showing that teens lack essential knowledge relating to auto finance, Junior Achievement USA and American Honda Finance Corporation developed and rolled out a new website designed to assist youth in understanding important...
by FinancialCorps | Oct 12, 2015 | Commentary, News
A high profile partnership between Chevrolet and the Rainbow PUSH Coalition was unveiled in October as part of their alliance to develop and launch a series of financial literacy workshops designed to teach African American consumers about financial and investment...
by FinancialCorps | Oct 11, 2015 | Commentary
In an infusion of positive feedback from millennials, the 18-35 year-old critical segment of our adult population, they expressed strong optimistic feelings about their financial future in the latest research of almost 2,000 U.S. adults. Millennials also reported that...
by FinancialCorps | Oct 2, 2015 | Commentary, Insight
Upon the release of the Financial Inclusion 2020 (FI2020) Progress Report by Accion and the Center for Financial Inclusion it was immediately clear how much progress has been made during the last few years in providing low-income people with access to financial...
by FinancialCorps | Sep 24, 2015 | Commentary, News
Momentum is building in Michigan for the movement of a bill designed to enhance financial education in schools throughout the state after Michigan received a “D” grade in a critical financial capability study. The bill, sponsored by Representative Jim Tedder, is set...