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Consumer.gov – What to Know and Do

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Financial literacy help for educators and students alike. The site offers a plain and simple approach to: Managing Your Money; Credit, Loans and Debt; and Scams and Identity Theft. The information has an easy-to-use, direct style that focuses on the basic information people need, along with the steps they need to take. Consumer.gov also has videos and audio read-alongs to support different learning styles and multi-tasking.

An Apple or a Donut? How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Our Understanding of Consumer Choices

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This article provides a plain-language description of behavioral economics and the role of common biases in financial decisionmaking, and reviews ways in which the findings of behavioral economics can help structure financial education and public policy.