| 3/18/08 | LifeSmarts competition: In an overtime victory with Rhode Island State Treasurer Frank T. Caprio |
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The Providence Journal: Metro Notes
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| serving as question master, the North Providence High School "Senior Cougars" team won the 2008 Sovereign Bank Rhode Island LifeSmarts competition, claimed the consumer cup, and earned the right to represent Rhode Island at the national competition to be held April 12 to 15 in Minneapolis, Minn. |
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| 3/17/08 | Financial education starts early |
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Providence Business News: Emily Sutton
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| Too many students are struggling with financial literacy at a time when more of them are dropping out of college for monetary reasons than for academic problems, according to the U.S. Department of ... (subscription may be required) |
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| 1/25/08 | R.I. officials praise financial literacy effort |
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The Providence Journal
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| The new President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy should help raise awareness nationwide about the need to improve education about financial matters, according to the Rhode Island JumpStart Coalition and several state officials. |
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| 12/12/07 | A portrait of champions |
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The Providence Journal
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| A team of students from Portsmouth High School competed Dec. 11 at Gillette Stadium in Financial Football, a game designed to improve the money management skills of high school and college students. |
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| 11/23/07 | You can bank on this team from North Providence |
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Providence Journal: Richard C. Dujardin
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| NORTH PROVIDENCE - Five North Providence High Schools seniors have returned from Boston as the regional winners of the 2007 Reserve Cup Challenge after defeating schools from five other states in a competition organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. |
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| 11/21/07 | R.I. teens win Boston Fed's "Reserve Cup" |
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PBN: Providence Business News
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| BOSTON - The Rhode Island team, composed of students from North Providence High School, brought home the "Reserve Cup" from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's second annual academic quiz show focusing on personal financial literacy, economics and the Federal Reserve System. |
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| 10/22/07 | Getting credit for being credit-wise |
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The Providence Journal: Neil Downing
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| When students enter college, they're swamped with sales pitches from credit-card companies.
You get a lot of offers for credit cards . . . even though you don't need it. They bombard you," said Grace Hedstrom, 20, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who's studying psychology. |
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| 6/22/07 | Panel to study financial education in R.I. |
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Providence Business News
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| STATE HOUSE - The General Assembly has authorized the creation of a panel to examine the status of youth financial education in Rhode Island.
The 15-member study commission is to include three senators, three representatives, and individuals such as the Commission of Elementary and Secondary Education, the general treasurer, a member of the Society of Certified Public Accountants, a member of the Rhode Island Bankers Association and a high school and middle school teacher,the Assembly said in its announcement. |
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| 6/21/07 | Food for Thought |
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John Hill, The Providence Journal
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| LINCOLN - If many teenagers aren't sure what they are going to be doing next weekend, getting them to think about what it'l be like when they're 64 can be a challenge.
So rather than hire a fancy advertising agency to get the message out, a business-education organization called the Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition decided to go to the source. |
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| 6/11/07 | Penny wise, and dollar wise too |
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Amanda K. Lowe, Daily Times
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| COVENTRY - Students at Coventry High School have been exposed to the knowledge to be financially sound in their lives - thanks to two of their peers. |
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| 5/31/07 | Students to help peers get jumpstart on managing their finances |
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SARA QUIGLEY, Warwick Beacon
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| Four Warwick high school students are among 16 throughout the state that have been chosen as leaders in a new youth financial literacy program in hopes of saving their peers from future financial mistakes. |
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| 5/19/07 | Students earn chance to help others save |
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Amanda K. Lowe, Daily Times
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| Money will be a top priority for students from three local high schools as they prepare to educate their peers about personal finance and money management. |
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| 4/28/07 | Money matters for the young |
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Tatiana Pina, The Providence Journal
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| PROVIDENCE: Dominique Stanley, a sixth grader from Harry Kizirian Elementary School, gets an allowance of $20 to $30 a week for washing dishes and keeping her room tidy. Sometimes, she says, she will use the money to buy a lot of snacks and watch movies. Other times she will go with her cousin to get her nails done. |
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| 4/5/07 | R.I. native appointed to post in Treasury |
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The Providence Journal
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| David G. Nason, a North Providence native who attended Mount St. Charles Academy in Woonsocket, will be nominated by President Bush to the post of assistant secretary of the Treasury (Financial Institutions). |
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| 3/6/07 | Pretty (Life) Smart |
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Amanda K. Lowe, Daily Times
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| Students from Coventry and Warwick spent Friday morning answering questions about consumer rights, personal finance, credit cards, and insurance.
These students were part of teams that took part in the 2007 "Life Smarts March Smartness Competition."
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| 3/1/07 | Vets students have "March smarts" |
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The Warwick Beacon Online
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| For the first year, a Warwick high school team will compete in March Smartness, aka LifeSmarts, a fast-paced quiz show competition for teams of four to five high school students who demonstrate consumer knowledge in the areas of personal finance, technology, health and safety, environment, and consumer rights and responsibilities. The teams first compete online and top-scoring teams are invited to the state competition. From Warwick Vets, team members are Lisa Ciesynski, Stephanie Lawlor, Javier Perez, Kevin Pigeon, David Purtell and Coach Gene Kelly. MarchSmartness will take place tomorrow at Rhode Island College. General Treasurer Frank T Caprio will serve as the final round question master. |
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| 12/27/06 | Friends don't let friends ruin their credit |
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By AMANDA PACITTI, Cranston Herald
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| Good financial planning starts young.
So say promoters of a recent initiative - the RI-FI High Program - championed by the Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition and Democrat Sen. Jack Reed.
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| 12/13/06 | RI Jump$tart Coalition to Receive $10,000 for RI-FI High Program |
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Office of US Senator Jack Reed, NewsRoom
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| WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senator Jack Reed (D-RI) today announced that the Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition will receive $10,000 through the U.S. Department of Educations Excellence in Economic Education (EEE) program to engage high school aged peer leaders directly in high impact financial literacy education. |
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| 10/21/05 | Students learn importance of credit, budgeting |
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James Faughnan, URI Good 5 Cent Cigar
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| Students from professor Joan Gray Anderson's personal finance class were given the opportunity to sit down and talk with Dan Iannicola Jr., deputy assistant secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, yesterday for "Get Smart About Credit Day."
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| 4/21/05 | Consumer whiz kids show their stuff in San Francisco quiz |
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The Providence Journal
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| Subscription may be required.
NORTH PROVIDENCE -- After tallying Rhode Island's first victory in a quiz-show sort of game known as LifeSmarts, four North Providence High School students are due back home today.
Team Rhode Island flew to San Francisco last week and defeated a group of students from Hawaii in the first round of the national LifeSmarts contest.
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| 4/18/05 | Treasury official says Americans must improve financial literacy |
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BY DAVID McPHERSON, Providence Journal Staff Writer
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| Banks are signing up teenagers for credit cards. President Bush is lobbying to overhaul Social Security. Bankruptcy laws are being tightened.
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| 4/13/05 | Deputy Assistant Secretary Iannicola Promotes Financial |
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U.S. Department of the Treasury
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| Treasury's Deputy Assistant Secretary for Financial Education, Dan Iannicola, Jr., today participated in several financial education events in Providence, Rhode Island, to promote April as Financial Literacy Month. |
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| 4/9/05 | U.S. Treasury official's visit to stress personal finance |
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Providence Business News
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| Dan Iannicola Jr., deputy assistant secretary for financial education at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, is visiting Rhode Island this week to take part in a series of events – all of them part of an effort to raise the awareness of state policy-makers about alarming trends in the personal financial marketplace and about the many personal financial education programs available to Rhode Islanders. |
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| 3/5/05 | Brilliant minds test their skills in LifeSmarts |
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The Providence Journal
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| 11/13/04 | Nonprofit educates young people on personal financial literacy |
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Providence Business News
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| Every week a PBN staff writer sits down with a business leader in a question-and-answer session designed to give readers an understanding of that individualÂ’s game plan for his or her company, business philosophy and views on the region as a whole. |
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| 11/11/04 | Seminar gives educators tools for students' financial success |
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The Warwick Beacon
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| By KELLY SMITH
More than 100 educators from Rhode Island and nearby Connecticut and Massachusetts attended a free seminar Monday that taught them strategies to help teach personal financial education to middle and high school students.
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