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Banking Basics (Russian)
An illustrated fact sheet that explains how to open a checking account. Explains different kinds of accounts and their fees, check processing, automatic deposit and bill paying, and ATM/debit cards. -
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Manage Your Money Wisely - Seminar Lesson Plan (English)
This PDF file provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The 27-page packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. -
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New multilingual brochure educates consumers on Earned Income Tax Credit
Consumer Action today released a multilingual brochure to educate people about the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which helps low income, working taxpayers get more money back when they file their federal income tax forms.… -
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Money, A Memoir: Women, Emotions and Cash
Long ago, and not entirely consciously, Liz Perle says she made a quiet contract with cash: she would do what it took to get it - work hard, marry right - but she didn’t want… -
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Raising Money Smart Kids
“Raising Money Smart Kids: What They Need to Know about Money - and How to Tell Them” is written by Kiplinger’s Personal Finance “Money Smart Kids” columnist Janet Bodnar. As a mother of three and… -
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Manage Your Money Wisely - Tracking your money (Laotian)
Knowing what you spend now is the first step in creating a budget. A budget is a spending plan to help you forecast and control your expenses. To create a budget you need to know… -
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Manage Your Money Wisely - Tracking your money (Cambodian)
Knowing what you spend now is the first step in creating a budget. A budget is a spending plan to help you forecast and control your expenses. To create a budget you need to know… -
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Manage Your Money Wisely - Tracking your money (Hmong)
Thawj kauj ruam uas yuav xyuas koj cov nyiaj zoo mas yog koj yuavtsum ua ib daim budget uas pab qhia tias koj siv nyiaj rau dabtsi. Kev kaw nyiaj tseg rau ib daim ntawv… -
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Complex pricing of credit cards
Pop quiz: what’s the interest rate on the credit cards you’re carrying? How about the default rate? Do you know what constitutes an event of default? What will trigger a penalty fee or surcharge? How… -
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New online MoneyWi$e financial education resource
Consumer Action, a leading national advocacy and education organization and Capital One Financial Corporation (NYSE:COF) have launched new, interactive financial education eLearning modules for consumers. The course offers consumers case studies, interactive tips and exercises… -
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Saving to Build Wealth - Seminar Lesson Plan Packet
This PDF packet provides guidance for teachers and team leaders. The 27-page packet contains a detailed curriculum, classroom activities and take home worksheets. -
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Lawmakers: translate rhetoric into real reform
Wall Street bashing is all the rage in Washington these days. That’s understandable, given that financial excesses played a serious role in starting the recession and that some of the firms that have gotten billions… -
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It’s the regulations, not the regulator
It has become a truism of the financial crisis that the system was prone to collapse because there was no single regulator who had the legal tools and authority to prevent a systemwide meltdown. That… -
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How we tested the big banks
This afternoon, Treasury, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve will announce the results of an unprecedented review of the capital position of the nation’s… -
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(Bank) chutzpah on steroids
What is up with the banks and the rest of the financial industry? The people running this system remind me of gangsters who manage to walk out of the courthouse with a suspended sentence and… -
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Minnesota A.G. wins one for consumers
Consumers using credit cards, cell phones and other forms of credit—meaning most Minnesotans—got a major victory this week when state Attorney General Lori Swanson announced that the St. Louis Park-based National Arbitration Forum, the country’s… -
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Saving to Build Wealth - Class Activities (Spanish)
Este archivo en PDF contiene traducciones en español de las actividades para hacer en clase y los ejercicios para hacer en casa tomados del plan de enseñanza en inglés El ahorro es la base de… -
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Micro Business Basics - Class Activities (Spanish)
Este archivo en PDF contiene traducciones en español de las actividades para hacer en clase y los ejercicios para hacer en casa tomados del plan de enseñanza en inglés Micro Business Basics. -
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Saving to Build Wealth - Make Money Work For You (Cambodian)
This brochure provides information about the importance of saving, setting short- and long-term goals to promote saving, opening a savings account and ways to make your money grow faster, including certificates of deposit (CDs), individual… -
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Saving to Build Wealth - Make Money Work For You (Laotian)
This brochure provides information about the importance of saving, setting short- and long-term goals to promote saving, opening a savings account and ways to make your money grow faster, including certificates of deposit (CDs), individual… -
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Saving to Build Wealth - Make Money Work For You (Hmong)
Daim ntawv no yog los qhia vim li cas tseem ceeb heev rau yus khaws nyiaj, npaj homphiaj me thiab homphiaj loj los pab yus khaws nyiaj, qhib ib lub txhab nyiaj tau paj me… -
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Banking Basics - You can bank on it (Hmong)
Daim ntawv no qhia txog tej yam loj uas sawvdaws yuavtsum paub txog cov tsev txhab nyiaj (bank) thiab tsev koom nyiaj (credit unions), xwsli cov txhab nyiaj sau nyiaj tawm (checking accounts), tseg nyiaj… -
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Banking Basics - You can bank on it (Laotian)
A brochure that provides a simple introduction to the main services offered by banks and credit unions, including checking accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit and debit cards. It also covers opening an account and… -
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Banking Basics - You can bank on it (Cambodian)
A brochure that provides a simple introduction to the main services offered by banks and credit unions, including checking accounts, savings accounts, certificates of deposit and debit cards. It also covers opening an account and… -
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Saving to Build Wealth - Make money work for you (Vietnamese)
Cẩm nang này cung cấp chi tiết về sự quan trọng trong việc tiết kiệm, đặt mục tiêu ngắn và dài hạn để khuyến khích tiết kiệm, mở trương mục tiết kiệm và các phương…
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