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Financial Literacy Update #4

The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy As I mentioned in our last update, April is Financial Literacy Month in the United States. In Canada, the Task Force on Financial Literacy has been busy…

Financial Literacy Update #3

Success will never be a big step taken in the future. Success is a small step taken just now. ~ Jonatan Mårtensson It’s been a while since our last Financial Literacy Update, and there’s been a lot of activity on that front lately. For one thing, April is Financial Literacy month in the States, so…

Financial Literacy Update #2

I wasn’t planning on having enough material to do another Financial Literacy Update just one week after the first one, but I received an email last week that I really wanted to bring to your attention. Before I get to that, here are a couple of articles on financial literacy issues that you might want…

6 Scales of Financial Capability: How Do We Measure Up?

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. ~ Attributed to both Andy McIntyre and Derek Bok Update: This article was included in the Festival of Frugality #220 – The Minimalist Edition at Fire Finance. Thanks! In April of 2009 Statistics Canada conducted it’s first-ever survey on financial capability. You can imagine that it’s pretty…