Money Matters: Exploration Of The 5 Pillars Of Financial Health. Defining financial wellness in America and how to achieve it through the help of credit unions.
What a drama it’s been for small dollar lending these last 40 years. From the late 1970s through the 1980s, a series of federal law developments resulting in banking deregulation gave rise to the predatory payday lending storefronts of the early 1990s through this 21st century. Predatory lending certainly took advantage in the early ‘90s […]
The CFPB or the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently published a report titled “Financial Well-Being in America” that discusses the four elements of financial well-being, and how Americans of different income levels display varying levels of financial wellness. Two of the CFPB’s most important conclusions...