Financial Literacy - SLS 1106 - Brandon Campus - LibGuides at Hillsborough Community College

Information on personal financial literacy

As you search the library catalog and library databases, try some terms such as: Financial literacy; Personal financial literacy ; "buying a home" ; "renting vs buying"

Useful websites

PBS. Your Money, Your Life
Real People. Real Issues. Get Your Financial Life on Track. Includes videos, calculators, a glossary, quizzes, and other tools and resources.
Practical Money Skills
Learn about budgeting, saving, credit, debt, identity theft, etc
SimpleDollar
Personal financial literacy advice ranging from information about credit cards to education to insurance and more.
Smart About Money
A wide range of financial topics from the National Endowment for Financial Education.

Additional websites

FDIC Consumer News Page
FDIC Consumer News provides practical guidance on how to become a smarter, safer user of financial services. Issues and selected articles offer helpful hints, quick tips and common–sense strategies to protect and stretch your hard-earned dollars.
FDIC Consumer News Page
MyMoney.org

Poverty Simulation

What if you don’t make much money? How do you get by?

Play Spent - A Poverty Simulation Game
Try the online game Spent to get a feel for the kinds of choices that we have to make without sufficient income. This game was developed with Durham, North Carolina in mind

Worth, Sarah. (2016, September 19). Poverty simulation prepares medical students for patients who struggle. An exercise done at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Health to help medical students understand the financial world that some of their patients face.

SLS 1106 - Brandon Campus: Financial Literacy

Information on personal financial literacy

Useful websites

Additional websites

Poverty Simulation