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The Financial Wellness Collaborative, comprised of local community and university partners, is proud to again bring a local version of the national Money Smart Week program to NIU and DeKalb, LaSalle and Lee counties. Money Smart Week is a public awareness campaign sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to promote financial literacy across...
Money Smart Week
Planning already has begun for Money Smart Week 2016, which will take place from April 23 to April 30. Organizers are interested in finding campus individuals who would like to present or host a session. Interested in participating? Contact Randi Napientek at (815) 753-HELP or randi@niu.edu. Want to attend a Money Smart Week session on...
Money Smart Week
The Financial Literacy Collaborative/DeKalb County Ca$h Coalition will team again with local community and university partners to again bring a local version of the nationally Money Smart Week program to NIU and DeKalb County. Money Smart Week is a public awareness campaign sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to promote financial literacy across...
NIU students talk Monday to Tyler Elementary School fourth-graders about Money Smart Week.
Two NIU students traveled Monday to DeKalb’s Tyler Elementary School to promote Money Smart Week. A student actor portraying Benjamin Franklin spoke to fourth-grade students about financial literacy. Booklets provided by Money Smart Week to familiarize each student with the topic. Each booklet contained key terms about economics, spending plans and banks and well as...
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Northern Illinois University will host or participate in 16 financial literacy events in DeKalb, Geneva, Naperville, Rockford and Sycamore during the Federal Reserve Bank’s Money Smart Week, scheduled from Saturday, April 20, through Saturday, April 27. “This year’s Money Smart Week is an exciting chance for students to gain knowledge about financial literacy topics that...
Photo of a Wall Street street sign with a U.S. flag in the background
With Election Day less than a month away, television is filled with talking heads spreading the conventional wisdom of what a Republican or Democrat president might mean for the economy. But when it comes to the relationship between presidential politics and the behavior of the financial markets, a group of business researchers says that conventional...
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Northern Illinois University will host seven financial literacy and money management events at its Hoffman Estates, Naperville, Rockford and main DeKalb campuses during the Federal Reserve Bank’s Money Smart Week. The week is scheduled from Saturday, April 21, through Saturday, April 28. “Money Smart Week is an excellent opportunity to provide free and valuable information...