Random links and updates
- Remember when I blew my budget in New York? Here’s the progress of getting back on course (scroll down)
- Take the financial education challenge: http://dosomething.org/challenges/financial/ (Thanks to David W. for the link)
- Where can your $10 make a difference? How about any of these 10 charities: Virtue: Ten Bucks? Ten Charities
- I also love this article about effettive giving to charity: http://www.pbs.org/wsw/tvprogram/#siegel (scroll down to Performance Philanthropy)
- Look how poor personal-finance education is in America.
In a national survey last year, only 52% of high school seniors answered correctly questions about personal finance and economics. The students struggled, for example, with questions on income tax, stocks and bonds, credit card liability and retirement plans.
(I’ll post that survey later.) Read more about these findings in the USA Today report.
- New ruling from the Supreme Court dictates that IRAs are shielded from bankrupcy proceedings
