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Eating healthy doesn’t have to be expensive. MyPlate tips and materials can help you make healthy choices while staying within your budget. Resources include recipes, tutorials, sample menus, and tips on creating a grocery game plan, shopping smart to fill your cart, and preparing healthy meals.

This brief was released by the Department of Labor Behavioral Interventions Project. The research shows ways to better encourage employees to focus on saving and investing for retirement.

The CFPB FinEx connects and supports financial education practitioners through an online and in-person information exchange. FinEx provides financial education practitioners with centralized access to the CFPB’s tools, research on consumer financial behavior and effective practices, and other financial education resources.

A tax refund may be the single biggest check some consumers receive all year. The CFPB’s Ready? Set. Save! offers resources to help service providers learn more about tax-time saving options to better help those they serve. This includes training webinar and workbook, promotional materials, and taxpayer tools.

A tax refund may be the single biggest check some consumers receive all year. The CFPB’s Ready? Set. Save! offers resources to help service providers learn more about tax-time saving options to better help those they serve. This includes training webinar and workbook, promotional materials, and taxpayer tools.

This guide describes the research behind the CFPB Financial Well-Being Scale – a tool to measure individual financial well-being – and provides detailed steps for using it, including how to score individuals’ responses and compare their scores.

The CFPB designed the Curriculum Review Tool to help educators compare and evaluate financial education curricula within four key areas: content, quality, utility, and efficacy. The goal of this tool is to allow educators to find and develop the most appropriate and effective financial education curricula for their classroom.

This CFPB web page provides parents and caregivers activities and conversation starters to help children develop money skills, habits, and attitudes that can serve them well as adults.

The Young Entrepreneurs course provides online training by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to help young entrepreneurs identify good business options and to give guidance on the first steps toward creating a business.

The CFPB’s Managing Someone Else’s Money guides include four guides for four different fiduciary capacities: agents under power of attorney, court-appointed guardians, trustees, and government fiduciaries. Each guide contains information on fiduciary responsibilities and tips on how to spot financial exploitation and avoid scams. Also, each guide includes a “Where to go for help” section with a listing of relevant agencies and service providers. State-specific guides have been developed for six states: Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Oregon, and Virginia.