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Emergency Savings

Building a modest emergency fund can provide financial security and peace of mind.  This brief describes the current lack of emergency savings in Wisconsin and strategies for building savings going...

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Strategies for Improving Credit Scores

Credit worthiness is a priority for many families.  As educators, it can be useful to focus on people who are most in need of improving low credit scores or establishing credit at all. This brief...

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Summer Reading for Financial Educators

This time on Lunchtime Learning – summer reading selections to keep you learning until we return in September. Books discussed – Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work, Heath, Chip...

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Family Financial Aspects of Health Care

This brief covers the financial aspects of health coverage and describe how health insurance works.  The brief outlines all the costs that make up the total cost of a family’s health coverage and what...

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Food Insecurity and Family Finances

Judi Bartfeld and J. Michael Collins introduce a discussion of the interrelationship between food and financial insecurity, using a unique data set collected in predominantly low-income schools across...

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Maintaining Family Financial Credit Worthiness: Managing Student Loans

Student loan debt is growing relative to incomes and other forms of debt.  It is important to note that managing student loans is not just a financial education issue for younger people; loans may also...

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Measuring Financial Security: Using the Financial Capability Scale

The Financial Capability Scale is an easy to use field-ready tool to measure the financial capability status of clients in financial programs.  It uses questions tested by the Center for Financial...

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Retirement and Estate Planning Basics

As the Baby Boom ages, there are increasing demands on educators to help people prepare for retirement. It is important that the foundation of this programming is based on basic budgeting, goal setting...

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Applications of Financial Coaching

Financial coaching is an application of techniques emerging from research in positive and coaching psychology, as well as behavioral economics.  Note prior issue briefs on the topic from 2013: What are...

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2015 Financial Popular Press Book Reviews

Book selections to keep you learning through the summer: Listen now:  2015 Book Reviews Moderator:  Michael Collins, Associate Professor in Consumer Finance and Extension State Specialist, Center for...

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