Bair: Financial Education Can’t Start too Early

FDIC Chair Sheila Bair recently reflected on the critical role that financial education plays in helping consumers protect themselves from bad loans, fraud and other troubles. In a June 17 speech at the Operation Hope Global Financial Literacy Summit in Washington, DC, Bair offered her vision for using financial education early and often in the future.

“It’s absolutely essential that people of all ages—and I mean all ages, starting in kindergarten—to learn financial basics so they can make prudent financial decisions,” she said.

Read the full text of the speech.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 29th, 2009 at 2:30 pm and is filed under Financial Literacy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.