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FEBRUARY 19, 2022

A 2017 study found that disparities in financial literacy may account for as much as 40 percent of the wealth gap between those retiring with more and those retiring with less. Meanwhile, only 21 states required a personal finance course for high school students in 2020, according to the Council for Economic Education.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We got to see each other learn. We learned that difference was our superpower. For this reason, many Black business owners cannot access loans from traditional lending institutions and often turn to credit cards, their own savings or nonprofit community lenders. We got to see each other be vulnerable and uncomfortable.

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JANUARY 8, 2022

When Jim came into my office at age 52 to see about retiring early, I was surprised. I fully expected to inform Jim and Sue they couldn’t retire early only to discover they were multimillionaires. This is the biggest lesson I learned from Jim and Sue: it’s not what you make but what you keep that determines whether you’ll build wealth.

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