Financial Services Corps

Last Monday I attended "Financial Literacy Day on Capital Hill", an awareness-raising event convened by the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, JA Worldwide and the National Council on Economic Education. In addition to a hall of exhibits by government, not-for-profit and corporate organizations that promote financial literacy across the country, Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX), Sen. Daniel Akaka (D-HI), and Sen. Wayne Allard (R-CO) offered moving remarks to the audience of practitioners and hill staff. I was wholly impressed and heartened by the passion and sincere commitment to financial education shown by these leaders, and enjoyed seeing the variety of curricula and methods on display. Yet, I left perplexed about the absence of policy that could systemize and enforce the delivery of these valuable efforts.