Roseman: Task force wants your ideas on making smarter decisions with money Toronto Star
When I check the Star’s articles database, I find 18 columns of mine that use the term “financial literacy.”
And when launching my Money 101 series that has run each Sunday since 1999, I talked about “a slow jog along the highway from idiocy to literacy.”
Helping people make better money decisions is my mandate. So, when the task force on financial literacy came to Toronto this week, I had to be there.
Instead of just covering the submissions given by others, I made one of my own. It was a challenge to fit a lifetime of work into a few minutes, so I focused on three points:
Expand financial literacy to include consumer literacy.
Use creative communication to reach a diverse population.
Get grass-roots groups to spread the word, not industry groups.
Why do we have a task force on financial literacy in the first place?
After the last stock market crash, the federal government realized that people needed help with spending, saving, investing and – of course – borrowing.
VAT, national sales, health care insurance taxes-I noticed that you didn't bother to poll on them. Nor did you bother to poll on whether people supported supplying insurance to undocumented workers-here's a hint-it's a loser. Getting people to agree on
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