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In partnership with the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE), Finance 411 is poised to help you find the tools and resources to help educate your audiences about personal finance. From home affordability to student loan repayment and everything in between, these resources will help you find new story ideas to localize within your community, tips and tricks for breaking down data and research for your audiences and examples of exceptional personal finance stories that have created meaningful impact for audiences.

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Housing markets are heating up in many metropolitan areas across the country, sparking stories about affordable housing, mortgage rates and home...

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We wrote back in May about why consumer reporters needed to be following the reorganization of a small government department most people probably...

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A stock market milestone made headlines this week: the longest bull market, or period of steady gains, in history. Despite also seeing some of the...

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$10 per month to watch any movie – every movie – you want, in the theater? It sounded too good to be true, and it may have been, as...

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Moving can be a major undertaking, from buying a home to getting a mortgage and paying it down. For buyers and renters, too, there can be...

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The new tax law signed just before the end of 2017 was a big story earlier this year as individuals and businesses looked for information about how...

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We’ve written before about how you can help your audience avoid common scams during tax time, particularly, this year, by filing early...

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It might be a good time to think about job training. Unemployment is low, and the number of job openings is actually greater than the number of...

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You don’t have to have “consumer reporter” in your title to report on money stories. In fact, consumer and personal finance...

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Has your online shopping seemed to get more expensive lately? It may have, following a recent Supreme Court ruling. In late June, the Supreme...

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It’s pretty typical: when couples combine their households, they divide up household duties and chores. But dividing financial...

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Going to college is supposed to be a way to level the playing field, opening doors to new opportunities and new careers: nurse, accountant,...

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