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Category: Data, research, and reports |
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New report explores the relationship between Financial Well-Being and the contents of and engagement with credit reports

A joint study with Credit Karma explores the relationship between subjective Financial Well-Being (FWB) and objective credit characteristics and engagement with financial education tools. The report identifies credit report and engagement variables that are significantly related to a consumer’s FWB score, including credit score, credit limit, credit utilization, and the use of a credit simulator tool. 

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Promising practices and lessons learned for Child Savings Account programs

The Bureau is engaged in building the capacity of child savings programs by releasing four briefs geared toward institutions and communities interested in starting, or expanding child savings opportunities.

Category: Info for consumers |
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Forty organizations join the 2019 Your Money, Your Goals cohort

The Bureau welcomes 40 organizations to the 2019 Your Money, Your Goals cohort. Public and private organizations working in community, faith-based, workplace, academic and prison settings will receive training and technical assistance to expand the reach of financial empowerment tools and information to economically vulnerable consumers.

Category: Info for consumers |
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Guías para ayudar y manejar su cuenta de cheques

¿Usted está pensando en abrir una cuenta de cheques, pero no está seguro por dónde empezar? Tenemos recursos que le pueden ayudar a seleccionar el producto que mejor se ajuste a sus necesidades financieras. Nuestras nuevas guías sobre cuentas tienen información para ayudarle a comparar y luego manejar su cuenta de cheques.

Category: Data, research, and reports |
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Measuring a child’s progress on the building blocks of financial capability

In 2016, the Bureau released the Building Blocks to Help Youth Achieve Financial Capability: A new model and recommendations, which describes where and when children and young adults acquire the foundations of financial capability. Now, the Bureau has created the Building Blocks Measurement Guide to provide researchers, program leaders, teachers, and other financial educators with ways to assess young people’s progress toward each building block.