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A one-stop shop for all Bennies and Johnnies need to know once they graduate CSB+SJU.

Don't get caught up in girl math.

Understanding the different facets of financial literacy can help you THRIVE in your 20's, and set you up for the future.

Keep these things in mind.

Fernando, J. (2024, June 29). Financial literacy: What it is, and why it is so important to teach teens. Investopedia. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financial-literacy.asp.

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The Black Girl's Guide to Financial Freedom: Build Wealth, Retire Early, and Live the Life of Your Dreams

The Black Girl's Guide to Financial Freedom: Build Wealth, Retire Early, and Live the Life of Your Dreams

In The Black Girl's Guide to Financial Freedom, Paris Woods takes the guesswork out of wealth-building and presents a plan that anyone can follow. Paris spent years working in education and wanted to find a way to build wealth without changing careers or taking the traditional real estate or business routes. This book is the result of years of research and practice that helped her find a simpler path.

Broke Millenial

Broke Millenial

If you're a cash-strapped 20- or 30-something, it's easy to get freaked out by finances. But you're not doomed to spend your life drowning in debt or mystified by money. It's time to stop scraping by and take control of your money and your life with this savvy and smart guide.

Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole

Get Good with Money: Ten Simple Steps to Becoming Financially Whole

Introducing the powerful idea of striving for financial wholeness instead of early retirement or millionaire status: learn the ten short-term steps that lead to long-term security. From the simple (best practices for budgeting and saving) to the more sophisticated (investing, taking charge of your credit score, and calculating your insurance needs), use memorable stories, actionable lists and worksheets, and a you-got-this attitude, to build a solid foundation for a life that's rich in every way.

Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances

Finance for the People: Getting a Grip on Your Finances

We are all weird about money... Finance for the People asks you to examine your beliefs and experiences around money - blending extremely practical exercises with mindfulness, and including more than 50 illustrations and diagrams to make the concepts accessible (and even fun). With deep insider expertise from years spent in many different corners of the financial industry, Paco de Leon is a friendly, approachable, and wise guide who invites readers to change their relationship with money.

Financial Literacy for Young Adults Simplified

Financial Literacy for Young Adults Simplified

Do you have an emergency fund? Have you started planning for retirement yet? Do you have enough income left over every month after you’ve made your minimum debt repayments? If your answer is no, then you’re in the same boat as many other young adults... The trick is to develop the right money mindset so you can start controlling your money instead of letting your money control you.

How to Money: Your Ultimate Visual Guide to the Basics of Finance

How to Money: Your Ultimate Visual Guide to the Basics of Finance

There's no getting around it. You need to know how to manage money to know how to manage life - but most of us don't! This illustrated guidebook from New York Times bestselling author and financial expert Jean Chatzky, Kathryn Tuggle, and their team at HerMoney breaks down the basics of money - how to earn it, manage it, and use it - giving you all the tools you need to take charge and be fearless with personal finance.

Personal Finance in your 20s for Dummies

Personal Finance in your 20s for Dummies

This book shows you the easy way to begin on the road to financial success. When it comes to protecting your financial future, starting sooner rather than later is the smartest thing you can do. This hands-on, friendly guide provides you with the targeted financial advice you need to establish firm financial footing in your 20s and to secure your finances for years to come.

The Psychology of Money

The Psychology of Money

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people... In The Psychology of Money, award-winning author Morgan Housel shares 19 short stories exploring the strange ways people think about money and teaches you how to make better sense of one of life's most important topics.

Why Didn't They Teach me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By

Why Didn't They Teach me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By

This book includes eight important lessons focusing on 99 principles that will quickly and memorably enhance any individual's money management acumen. Unlike many of the personal money management books out there, this book is a quick, easily digested read that focuses more on the qualitative side than the quantitative side of personal money management.