Financial Literacy, Financial Education and the Federal Reserve: Strategies for Success

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About the Conference

The Federal Reserve System has a long-standing commitment to promoting financial literacy, and we devote considerable resources to helping consumers educate themselves about their financial options. Consumers who know what questions to ask are considerably better able to find the financial products and services that are right for them.

—Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, April 17, 2009

The 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks and the Board of Governors play an important role in providing accurate and unbiased economic and financial information. There is a great deal of variety of how individual reserve banks design and implement their economic and financial education programs, the individuals they target and the organizations that they partner with.

The goal of this conference was to bring individuals within the Federal Reserve System who have an interest in economic and financial education together with researchers and representatives of partner organizations to do three things:

1. Share strategies for designing successful programs and partnerships in financial literacy and financial education
2. Discuss research that evaluates the effectiveness of financial education and counseling
3. Learn from partners about what works and what could be improved

After the Conference ...