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Financial Literacy Mission Accomplished

June 16, 2017 Brian 23 Comments

After three years of hard work, my financial literacy mission has been accomplished, well at least for now. As of this week, the financial literacy committee I have been working as a part of had our proposals for year-one approved and over six-thousand-students will benefit come the 2017-18 school year.

Damn that feels good. Why financial literacy you ask? Here are some of the same reasons we presented to our board of education recently.

We use money our entire lives.
61% of New York State College Graduates have debt.
Their average debt totals $27,822.
Average Salary of employees with Bachelor degree and less than 1-year experience: $44,350.
That’s a $2556 a month take home after taxes.
Our Students asked for it. We surveyed former graduates, and financial literacy was one of the four subjects they wish our High School had better prepared them for.
17 States require a Personal Finance Course. In New York State instruction is integrated into another course, and poorly defined.

The first line should be all you need to know. We use money our entire lives, why in the world wouldn’t we expect some education on the topic from someone, anyone.

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Leaving a Legacy: Class of 2030

June 9, 2017 Brian 25 Comments

When I started volunteering within my school district three years ago, I had no thoughts about leaving a legacy. I still don’t today, but as I was driving home from our final financial committee meeting before our board of education presentation, in fact, I realize I might just be doing that.

I will be presenting our three-year plan to implemented financial literacy across ten schools, seven elementary, two middle schools and a high school with a population of two thousand students.

Considering our goal is to add curriculum to all grade levels K-12, having an impact on students financial futures are very likely over many years.

A kindergartener entering our school district this year will graduate in the year 2030. I’ll be sixty years old by then, and that student would have years of financial education all because of my efforts started in 2014. A nice little feather in my cap, but not anywhere close to the reason I started pursuing this effort.

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Financial Literacy Interview: Super Saving Tips

April 30, 2017 Brian

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As part of Financial Literacy Month (#FLM2017) I will be featuring interviews with fellow bloggers to get their take on the subject. Please join me in welcoming Gary from Super Savings Tips to the blog today.

Please tell me a little bit about yourself and your blog.
Gary: I had a 40-year working career that involved a number of business and executive positions. I spent 30 years in retail management where I ran company operations and did almost everything from budgets to advertising, from personnel to construction. Then, during the last decade of my career, I worked as a financial specialist with several banks where I was involved in both business and with private clients advising them on their personal finances like investments and retirement planning.

Now, in retirement, I wanted to share my experiences with others through my blog, Super Saving Tips. I never thought of myself as a writer but I’m stimulated by doing just that. Hopefully, it educates and helps others to learn and avoid the mistakes I, and some of my customers, have made over the years.

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