Personal Finance Education from the Federal Government
I often hear people complain about the lack of personal finance education in high schools. Guess what I found in my e-mail inbox: an outreach message from the Federal Trade Commission.
In case it's relevant to any of your upcoming posts, I wanted to let you know about a new FTC website, FTC.gov/MoneyMatters. We created the site to help people dealing with debt, struggling to find a job, or looking to learn more about creating a budget, saving, and spending wisely in tough economic times.
Money Matters offers short, practical tips and links to reliable resources for more information on topics like credit repair, debt collection, job-hunting and job scams, vehicle repossession, managing mortgage payments, and foreclosure rescue scams. Site users also can learn how to recognize and avoid consumer scams and rip-offs.
There, everybody can get personal finance education directly from our federal government, at any time they want. If they missed it in high school, no problem. From now on, please no more complaint about not having personal finance education. Personal finance education is available to everybody who cares to learn.
The FTC is getting the new media bug. They created AnnualCreditReport.com spoof videos. There are also a handful of ad buttons and banners for bloggers to spread the word. They even include a link to a popular blog The Simple Dollar in their list of resources for budgeting. Is that an official endorsement? Trent Hamm must be very happy. Dear FTC, if I carry your ad banner, can you link to me please?
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