Note: We’re bringing back our weekly series of HFF Financial Literacy Heroes. We’ll be posting and linking daily to financial literacy news from across the country and around the world. Then, every Friday, we’ll put together our list of the top movers and shakers in personal finance from the previous week. If you’ve been fighting the good fight, look for your name among our FinLit Heroes!
Our FinLit Heroes this Friday include a teacher, two tech company founders, and someone you know (again)!
Here’s your Financial Literacy News Roundup for Thursday, August 17, 2017:
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Note: This is the first in our weekly series of HFF Financial Literacy Heroes. We’ll be posting and linking daily to financial literacy news from across the country and around the world. Then, every Friday, we’ll put together our list of the top movers and shakers in personal finance from the previous week. If you’ve been fighting the good fight, look for your name among our FinLit Heroes and watch for our posts across our social media outlets.
Our FinLit Heroes this Friday include two teachers, a country (?!), a famous actor, and someone you know.
Author Blair London (@TheBlairLondon) says her book on the nightmare realities facing veterans, Jobs for Angels, is a work of fiction based on facts. And the world she describes is still the reality for our vets. She joins us on Home & Family Finance Radio to point out the warning signs of treating our returning veterans with hostility. It happened following the Vietnam War; can it really happen again?
Original Air Date: May 3, 2015
Any idea which company is putting more than $160 million dollars into programs to train students in financial literacy? Meet Shannon Schuyler (@ShannonSchuyler). She’ll tell you about her company – and why they spend lots of their money on you!
Original Air Date: April 26, 2015
Getting the right child into the right school and at the right price can be just as complicated as it sounds. But college placement officer Verdel A. Jones (@deliteach) says you can break it down to a doable task by asking the right questions and making smart choices. It’s never too soon to plan! Find out how to make a stressful process work for your child and your pocketbook.
Original Air Date: April 19, 2015
No one recognizes the importance of Financial Literacy more than Arty Arteaga, President and CEO of the Defense Credit Union Council. Arty stops by the microphones of our Radio America studios in person to remind us that looking after the financial business of our military should be as important as looking after our own personal finances. His powerful message is a call to action to protect ourselves by protecting our service members.
Original Air Date: April 12, 2015
We welcome a special guest today in the form of W.G. “Bud” Schneeweis, Director of the Military Financial Readiness Project for the FINRA Foundation. Bud joins us to explain what FINRA does and why it should be important to you. From a financial point of view, FINRA helps protect the very people who protect you. Join us and Bud on Home & Family Finance Radio.
Original Air Date: April 12, 2015
April is a very special month to all of us at Home & Family Finance, since the purpose of our show is to improve financial literacy and April is Financial Literacy Month! What does this mean to you? Gigi Hyland (@hylandhighway), Executive Director of the National Credit Union Foundation, joins us to explain why you should be paying special attention to your finances and making some important changes, beginning in April and continuing throughout the year. Gigi offers both the facts and the solutions. Follow her advice to a more productive and worthwhile financial future.
Original Air Date: April 12, 2015
If you think all debt is bad debt, wait until you hear what author Tom Anderson (@TomValueOfDebt) has to say on Home & Family Finance and in his new book The Value of Debt in Retirement. Tom brings some straight talk that just might straighten out your finances on the way to a better retirement.
Original Air Date: April 5, 2015