KnowledgePlex: Topic: Financial Literacy

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An important initiative in the affordable housing and community development field, financial literacy ensures that home buyers have the ability to make informed judgments and effective decisions about the use and management of money. Home buyers can realize their dreams by learning the financial skills necessary to maintain a family spending plan, use checking and savings accounts, build or repair a credit history, and apply for a loan.

Building Assets, Building Credit: Symposium Proceedings (100%)
Jeanne Engel
Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University
January 1, 2004

Financial Literacy Strategies: Where Do We Go From Here? (99%)
Robert I. Lerman, Elizabeth Bell
Urban Institute
August 1, 2006

Innovative Employment Approaches and Programs for Low-Income Families (90%)
Karin Martinson, Pamela A. Holcomb
Urban Institute
February 1, 2007

From Poverty, Opportunity: Putting the Market to Work for Lower Income Families (86%)
Matt Fellowes
The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
July 1, 2006

The Price Is Wrong: Getting the Market Right for Working Families in Philadelphia (85%)
Matthew Fellowes, Bruce Katz
The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program
April 1, 2005

a Framework For Crafting And Assessing Proposals to Modernize The Outdated U.S. Financial Regulatory System (76%)
GAO Reports
January 8, 2009

Hearing of The Troubled Assets Relief Program (tarp) Congressional Oversight Panel; Subject: Reforming America's Financial Regulatory Structure; Chaired By: Elizabeth Warren, Professor of Law, Harvard University Witnesses Panel I: General Gene Dodaro, a (70%)
Federal News Service
January 14, 2009

Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Introduces National Financial Literacy Act (68%)
States News Service
January 28, 2009

MoneyWi$e Financial Education eLearning Resource Launches in Spanish; Interactive modules help parents, teens and young adults explore the basics of money management online (65%)
Business Wire
January 14, 2009

Hearing of The Senate Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs; Subject: Where Were The Watchdogs? The Financial Crisis And The Breakdown of Financial Governance; Chaired By: Senator Joseph I. Lieberman (ID-CT); Witnesses: Gene L. Dodaro (64%)
Federal News Service
January 21, 2009

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