Improved education will have clear benefits for GDP growth, S&P says Rating agency Standard & Poor’s has become one more emphatic voice blaming the halting post-recession recovery on high income inequality in the United States, as an S&P report out [...]

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released Your Money, Your Goals: A financial empowerment toolkit for social services programs. Your Money, Your Goals is a toolkit that social services organizations can use to help their clients set goals, choose financial products [...]

NPR Planet Money reveals the impact Neighborhood Trust's Employer Solution is having at a marketing firm in Seattle where Andrew Rosenkranz describes the benefit of offering financial advisement to his employees. Read the rest at NPR Planet Money

Credit unions in low-income communities recognize that meeting the financial needs of members often means going beyond simply offering products to also providing education and counseling to help their members utilize products effectively and reach their financial goals. Today more [...]