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Retirement Accounts

1. Books: Deal with Your Debt
   In Deal with Your Debt, personal finance columnist Liz Pulliam Weston provides strategies for managing debt effectively and reveals how some debt can contribute to your fiscal health and even help build wealth. Weston identifies…
2. English: 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.
3. Spanish: 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…
4. Press: Hardship 401(k) withdrawals set record in second quarter
   In the wake of news about a spike in new applications for unemployment benefits comes another potentially troubling sign: A record number of workers made hardship withdrawals from their retirement accounts in the second quarter.…
5. English: Help Your Savings Grow - Leader’s Guide
   This 20-page guide, written in question and answer format with a table of contents, is designed to provide background information on how to build savings. The topics include savings accounts, individual development accounts (IDAs), money…
6. Press: Families saving for college aren’t always choosing best options
   Parents remain determined to save money for college even in the tough economy, but they’re not always choosing the methods that give them the best bang for their buck. The nation’s leading college lender Sallie…
7. English: Saving to Build Wealth - PowerPoint Training Slides (English)
   The Saving to Build Wealth Powerpoint training file is available for download in the "Download File" section.
8. Press: Five tips for making the most out of your 401(k) plan
   Every so often, you get an ominous-looking package from your employer. It has … numbers. And percentages. And words such as “large-company growth” and “mutual” and “fund.” You ignore it, because it looks complicated, threatening…
9. Press: Ripping off needy seniors through the ‘chained CPI’
   Of all the ways policymakers in Washington show they have absolutely no conception of how their tinkerings with the federal budget affect average Americans, one stands alone. That’s the proposal to change the formula that…
10. Press: Loss of home equity downsizes retirement for many
    Paul Trigili, an information technology professional in Las Vegas, is 65, has back problems and would like to retire at the end of the year. There’s just one thing standing in his way: his house.…
11. Spanish: Saving to Build Wealth - PowerPoint Training Slides (Spanish)
    El archivo de la presentación en PowerPoint del seminario El ahorro es la base de la fortuna está disponible en la sección "Download File".
12. Press: Investment guidance for employees
    A new Labor Department rule could help millions of workers make better choices on how to invest in their workplace retirement plans. I had the opportunity recently, as part of a financial literacy ministry I…
13. Press: Design a countdown-to-retirement plan
    Retirement can be some of the most rewarding years of your life. Yet many people jeopardize the quality and security of their golden years by not planning. They spend their 20s searching for a partner,…
14. Press: Retirement in 2012: Don’t panic
    Despite anticipated market swings in 2012, sticking with your investment strategy is the best way to grow your nest egg.
15. Press: Options for 401(k) plans get more affordable
    As employers prepare for new federal rules requiring them to explain how fees affect 401(k) returns, industry providers are rolling out better, lower-cost plans. The Department of Labor rule “is a big driver of change,”…
16. Press: Don’t let debt weigh down your retirement
    Not so long ago debt “was a four-letter word when spoken in the same breath as “retirement.” Before waltzing into their golden years, older Americans paid off their loans, then celebrated by burning the mortgage.…