Kids learn important money lessons from watching you earn, spend, save, and borrow. The CFPB and the FDIC are working together to help better prepare America’s young people to make financial decisions to achieve their own goals, throughout the stages of their lives. Start with the links below to explore age-appropriate information and activities for your kids.
MyMoney Resources - Youth
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Agency Owner: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Document Type: Website, Tools, Tips, Plan, Activity
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FindYouthInfo.gov is the U.S. government Web site that helps you create, maintain, and strengthen effective youth programs. Included are youth facts, funding information, and tools to help you assess community assets, generate maps of local and federal resources, search for evidence-based youth programs, and keep up-to-date on the latest, youth-related news.
Agency Owner: Department of Health and Human Services
Document Type: Website
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The official benefits website of the U.S. government informs citizens of benefits they may be eligible for and provides information on how to apply for assistance. Find more than 1,000 Federal and state benefits including housing, food/nutrition, education, grants/loans, disaster relief and Medicare/Medicaid.
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This special edition of FDIC Consumer News provides simple strategies and practical guidance for borrowing, saving, banking and avoiding Scams for young adults, teens, parents and caregivers.
Agency Owner: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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This FDIC brochure provides information and advice on overdraft fees.
Agency Owner: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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This FDIC Consumer News article features tips to help students and their families avoid debt overload as they plan for — and pay for — college, graduate school or other education.
Agency Owner: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Tips to help you avoid spending more than you have to — or responding to a bogus offer posted by a scammer.
Agency Owner: Federal Trade Commission
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This article provides a plain-language description of behavioral economics and the role of common biases in financial decisionmaking, and reviews ways in which the findings of behavioral economics can help structure financial education and public policy.
Agency Owner: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Document Type: Article
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This article provides an overview of bank-based financial education. The role of banks more generally is reviewed, and examples of Marshall and Isley (M&I) Bank's Consumer Education (CE) program are discussed. Evaluation methods used by M&I are described. Key factors for success include clearly defined priorities, a standardized high-quality curriculum, appropriately designed delivery, well-integrated assessment and evaluation, effective community partnerships and a willingness to provide supporting tools.
Agency Owner: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Document Type: Article
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This article provides a brief overview of the field of financial education and explores some of the challenges and potential solutions. The author describes developments in the contemporary financial education movement since the 1990s and the background economic changes
that stimulated its growth; reviews currently available financial education initiatives for youth and adults and discusses the evidence about
its effectiveness as well as broader challenges for the field. The article concludes by highlighting both general and specific examples of efforts to move the field forward.
Agency Owner: Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Document Type: Article
Information Source: Literature review
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