Teach you geometry, physic you can graduate from college speaking three languages with a deep understanding of physics or quantity up philosophy you can get a ph. D. In literature they teach that in school if you get enough education but do you know the one thing they almost never teach in middle school or high school, to say nothing of College Financial literacy i am not talking about economics here you cane be an econmajor and learn nothing about personal Financial Planning Retirement Readiness let alone how to manage your money wisely money is just not talked about you are 1,000 teams more likely to read das capital. An important book. Marx is a good economist but he is not going to show you how to balance a checkbook let alone how to build a portfolio of stocks financial literacy, a third rail thats why on a come stand mission to teach you how to manage your money. So you can be a better investor. Think of this show as continuing education for all thing financial. When it comes to
Only geometry and physics you know the one thing they almost never teach you in high school, let alone touch with a tenfootpole in College Financial literacy im not talking about economics here you can be an econ major and still learn nothing about personal Financial Planning or Retirement Readiness or even how to balance a darn checkbook, let alone how to invest your money wisely money is not talked about in education. Its like the third rail of the whole educational system and thats why im on a Constant Mission to teach you about every aspect of managing your money so you can become a better investor, both when it comes to retirement investing and playing around with what i call your discretionary mad money portfolio. Which is why i wrote get rich carefully to begin with. Even if you dont own individual stocks, you probably have some kind of exposure to the stock market a 401 k plan, which is why i want to take a moment to talk about retirement for those of you who have been living i
[applause] good morning and welcome to the center for American Progress. My name is carla martin. Im the the Vice President for policy. It is my honor to welcome to this exciting event. Our lineup today is a real testament to the importance of this issue to this administration and to president obama. Nearly one in three americans has some type of criminal record that creates barriers to employment, housing and many other pathways to opportunity. Some americans with criminal records are even barred from casting a ballot which denies the right to participate in our democracy after they have paid their debt to our society. The impact of these barriers goes beyond those previous convicted of a crime. Criminal records are a family sentence. In fact, they have found that nearly half americans children now have a parent with a criminal record. Study after study has shown that the barriers associated with the parents criminal record can severely limit the childs opportunities and lead to worse
Good morning, everybody. So we will shift gears now building on the remarks from representative pose and representative crowly. We want to do three things. First we vpt to a conversation about what the pba accomplished and what was left undone. That is the purpose of this conversation. We will get indepth into it with really great speakers into what happened in the ten years since the tpa was passed, what it means for retirement in america, and what more needs to be done and hopefully that will tee up the next of the day. Followed by keynote remarks at 11 30 from edmond murphy, ceo of power retirements. And then is short break and we will have a second panel all about the path forward and what is the agenda for the next administration. So, what i am going to do, just a note on logistics. The way we would like to do is people make brief remarks and i will follow up with one question per person. Woel we will go down the row and have time for dialogue between the panel and questions and a
World something really big happened on monday. And that was there was agreement to actually increase the cpp. So we had a change in government last october. That was a positive on enhancing the cpp. Frankly, ontario would rather do something nationally with the other provinces than do things on their own. So the between ontario and the federal government and doing some further work, there was actually agreement on monday to do two things with respect to the canada pension plan. One was to increase the benefit, and number two is to increase the amount of income thats going to be covered by the benefit. So its a big deal in canada right up there with stabilizing the cpp in the 1990s. So theres a lot of detail to be worked out as to okay, exactly you get down to the bottom line what does it all mean in terms of implementation. A long window on implementation, starts 2019. Sevenyear window to implement the whole thing. That got agreement thats what got agreement from the hesitant provinces