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		<title>This Week in Financial Literacy (March 5, 2010)</title>
		<link>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/03/this-week-in-financial-literacy-march-5-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Kang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Articles That Could Change Your Life]]></category>

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Time to get back to basics.   Here&#8217;s a good article that describes How To Design Your Own Financial Literacy Curriculum. As the author of the article states, this is one topic that student&#8217;s won&#8217;t feel compelled to ask, &#8220;when are we ever going to need to use this?&#8221;
The United Way of San Antonio and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Would you dump the stocks in your retirement portfolio in exchange for greatly reduced risk?</title>
		<link>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/03/would-you-dump-the-stocks-in-your-retirement-portfolio-in-exchange-for-greatly-reduced-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Kang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money Madness or Money Miracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retirement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk tolerance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stock market]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The traditional investment advice is to buy stocks and hold them for the long run.   The problem is that there have been many long periods of time when the stock market remained essentially flat or even negative.  Most recently, stocks lost about -.95% a year over the ten year period ending in 2009.  That doesn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Literacy: The Foundation for Building Wealth</title>
		<link>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/financial-literacy-the-foundation-for-building-wealth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/financial-literacy-the-foundation-for-building-wealth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Kang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What Americans Are Worried about Now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[financial literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wealth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/?p=1419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I ran across an article last week (Young Adults Need To Seek Wealth Literacy, Not Financial Literacy) which suggested that there is a problem with current financial literacy programs and that we ought to be teaching young people about building wealth instead. The author argues, &#8220;there is a loss of translation in somewhere between the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two examples of why financial literacy may be even more important now</title>
		<link>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/two-examples-of-why-financial-literacy-may-be-even-more-important-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/two-examples-of-why-financial-literacy-may-be-even-more-important-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 03:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erik Carter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[What Americans Are Worried about Now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Credit Card Reform Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit cards]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/?p=1412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These two articles about the aftermath of the recently enacted credit card rules demonstrate the shortcomings and unintended consequences of financial regulation and the need for financial literacy.
The first article shows how credit card companies are instituting new fees to replace the ones that are now illegal and finding clever ways to trick borrowers into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week in financial literacy (February 13, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/this-week-in-financial-literacy-february-13-2009/</link>
		<comments>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/this-week-in-financial-literacy-february-13-2009/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Kang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial News Digest: Best News Articles Online]]></category>

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The Anderson Library at the University of Wisconsin Whitewater posted a couple links to sites where you can test your own financial literacy.  They also listed a number of resources that can be found in their library (and maybe yours) to improve your own financial knowledge.
There will be a free financial education seminar sponsored by Carver Federal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week in financial literacy (February 6, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/this-week-in-financial-literacy-february-6-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Kang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial News Digest: Best News Articles Online]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[twifl]]></category>

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Financial literacy programs are starting up everywhere.  Keep up the good work!  Eastern Kentucky University announced this week the establishment of a financial literacy training program designed specifically to serve low- and moderate-income communities in eastern Kentucky. According to their press release:
The University will prepare students and community leaders to become certified financial literacy instructors, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How young is too young to shop?</title>
		<link>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/do-young-children-need-to-learn-how-to-shop/</link>
		<comments>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/do-young-children-need-to-learn-how-to-shop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Kang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money Madness or Money Miracle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kids and money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shopping]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent episode of Shark Tank, a show where entrepreneurs pitch their businesses to venture capitalists to secure financing, one entrepreneur was looking for capital to expand a store that sells exclusively to young children who buy gifts for their parents as a way to teach them about the shopping experience.  The store looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week in financial literacy returns (Jan 31, 2010)</title>
		<link>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/this-week-in-financial-literacy-returns-jan-31-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/this-week-in-financial-literacy-returns-jan-31-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Kang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial News Digest: Best News Articles Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twifl]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/?p=1370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Even though we were away, financial literacy in America hasn&#8217;t skipped a beat.
Some highlights from the past week.

A recent poll, conducted by the NYSUT, showed that 74% of their members felt that financial literacy should be a graduation requirement.
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau and Wi$eUp, a financial education program designed for Generation X and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new push for retirement savings</title>
		<link>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/a-new-push-for-retirement-savings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/02/a-new-push-for-retirement-savings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Kang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Congress is Considering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some new and some renewed proposals are circulating congressional desks that hope to increase Americans&#8217; participation in IRAs and retirement plans, the most significant of which is an automatic IRA enrollment.
Employers that don&#8217;t offer retirement plans will be required to offer workers an option to have money automatically deducted from their paycheck and deposited into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama creates Financial Literacy Council</title>
		<link>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/01/president-obama-creates-new-financial-literacy-council/</link>
		<comments>http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/2010/01/president-obama-creates-new-financial-literacy-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Kang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Milestones in Financial Literacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advisory Council on Financial Capacity]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.getfinancialfinesse.org/?p=1366</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, Obama signed an executive order creating an Advisory Council on Financial Capacity.  The goal of the Council is to advise the President on promoting and enhancing financial literacy in the U.S
Though this is a big step forward in financial literacy, the council will unfortunately expire in two years unless it is renewed by [...]]]></description>
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