The money will help homeowners pay their mortgages, homeowner association fees or liens, utilities, delinquent property taxes and homeowner’s insurance
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Opinion: Set up the next generation for success with financial literacy education
Too few Colorado students have access to basic education about managing their money.
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State Treasurer Young: Teaching financial literacy in schools can unlock better academic measurement
Growing up in a working-class family, we never received cash stuck in a birthday or holiday card, which is why I remember the time I got a $25 U.S. Savings Bond from my grandmother. It came in a birthday card, when I was 7 or 8 years old. Twenty-five dollars was a fortune to me. […]
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Opinion: I’ve learned firsthand why Colorado high schools should offer financial literacy education
I was 24 years old, listening to an NPR podcast and driving up the rugged west coast of New Zealand in a campervan, the first time I learned that canceling a credit card hurts your credit. At that point in my adult life, I’d already had three credit cards, canceled one, and thought I was […]