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Article: Financial literacy: university-focused activities.
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- The Tax Adviser
- Article date:
- May 1, 2008
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The American economy is the eighth wonder of the world. The ninth is the economic ignorance of the American people.
--Burton Crane, Getting and Spending: An Informal Guide to National Economics (Harcourt, Brace, 1956)
Financial literacy has always been valuable in the capitalist U.S. economic system, and arguably individual personal financial literacy is now more important than ever. Unfortunately, there is also evidence that financial literacy is not prevalent among the people who need it most. The good news is that there are many organizations focused on this issue.
The AICPA, state CPA societies, the American ...