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Financial Literacy In Retirement Planning, Jennifer Potts
Financial Literacy In Retirement Planning, Jennifer Potts
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
Studying finance, I have been exposed to the retirement plan options and how they work in most of my classes. But when I would talk to my family and friends about what I was learning, I quickly discovered that many people simply had no interest or understanding about the subject. I believe everyone needs to have a basic understanding of where income will come from once they retire. This realization pushed me to study the level of financial literacy about retirement and plan options of adults in the working world and determine how I could bring information about this topic …
Growing Up Financially Literate: A Lifelong Curriculum, Amanda J. Brown
Growing Up Financially Literate: A Lifelong Curriculum, Amanda J. Brown
Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects
This work ventures to find a solution to one source of economic instability: financial illiteracy. The inability to manage money, caused by a lack of education, has led to poor decision making. These bad decisions can lead to a number of financial hardships, as well as emotional and physical problems. Better education can combat all of these symptoms and lead to a healthier financial future. Growing Up Financially Literate attempts to help close the curriculum gap surrounding financial literacy by recognizing that the gap does not only exist in a single age group. Financial education cannot stop with any one …