Free financial education: Cheap Trick Thursday
Eileen's live chat this week covered free online games that teach financial literacy to people of all ages.
If you're looking for a more traditional means to learn the foundations of personal finance, however, you won't have to shell out a lot of money to do it.
As recommended in a recent Marketplace Money show, your local cooperative extension can be a great resource for financial basics.
The Maryland Cooperative Extension, for example, offers free financial education materials available on its Web site, including "Managing Money in Tough Times" and "Prescription for Financial Wellness" --- a course meant to be tackled in four 2-hour sessions.
One helpful article for city workers who *won't* be working during Friday: Facing a Furlough? Develop a Plan.
There's also ...
... lots of publications with worksheets to help you develop budgets and to make choices about life insurance, home equity loans and financing a college education.
Information about saving and investing for retirement and even (as we've told you before) how to pay for a funeral are also available.
UPDATE: Local cooperative extension offices --- such as the one in Baltimore --- can provide financial literacy seminars for groups. Contact them for more information.
