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Who We Are
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The Institute of Consumer Financial Education
(ICFE) is a consumer oriented, non-profit, tax exempt (501c3), public education organization based in San Diego, California.
The ICFE, founded in 1982 by the late
Loren Dunton, was
also known as the National Center
for Financial
Education (NCFE) , and Paul
Richard is
the Executive Director.
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What We Do
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The ICFE is dedicated to
helping people of all ages improve their spending, increase their
savings and use credit more wisely.
Help educate, motivate and empower Americans, through educational
programs, to put more of their discretionary dollars aside
in investments for their future.
Help people refrain from over-spending and credit card
abuse, saddling themselves with consumer debt and high interest
payments they so often can't afford.
Influence people to regularly save and invest at least
ten percent of their income.
Teach people how to keep more of the money they
earn and do more with the money they keep. Help raise the
savings and investment rate of America by creating new investors.
Help employers everywhere make personal finance programs (home
study or instruction) available to employees and their families
as part of an employee assistance program and employee benefit
so as to lessen the outside and often financial distractions people
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What We Stand For
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Promoting an Economically Strong America
With Financially Healthy Citizens
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We
support and encourage efforts to get all Americans to put
more money aside for the future so as not to be dependent
upon Social Security/Medicare, family members or welfare.
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We
urge that all fifty states require a course in personal
finance for high school seniors and the establish personal
finance courses in elementary and junior high schools.
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We
believe additional incentives are needed to cause more Americans
to live within their income and motivated to increase savings.
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We
disparage any incentives to consumers borrow and spend beyond
their incomes.
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support efforts to bring about full disclosure and consumer
protection in borrowing, saving, insuring and investing.
We see deficit spending whether by the individual, the family,
businesses or government at any level as costly and dangerous.
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We
promote putting aside more discretionary income for the
future, whether it go into savings, investments or insurance.
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promote rehabilitative financial and credit education, now
incorporated into existing bankruptcy laws, on the Internet. |
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