The list is a bit longer today--perhaps more good stuff is popping up during Financial Literacy Month.  In any case, there should be something for everyone here! 

Financial Literacy Month

• CNBC to recognize Financial Literacy Month with special coverage all month.(CNBC)
• This was today’s CNBC post, crediting you wonderful finlit warriors for helping your students avoid payday lenders!

• How much financial education is enough? (Cincinnati.com)
• What men can learn from the way women invest. (Yahoo Finance)
• Equal pay day was April 2—what can women do to earn what their male counterparts earn? (CNN) 
• How about this for a budgeting scenario in your class: you are a teacher in Hawaii. (USA Today)

Savings

• Saw this article in many feeds this week about the savings crisis in the US. (CNBC)

Higher Ed/Paying for College

• How social media can add stress to the college acceptance process. (This is awful!!) (Kobliner)
• Which schools are going “test-optional” and why? The list includes some selective schools. (Inside Higher Ed)
• If you are looking for a longer article, this interesting piece explains what is going on economically at colleges and universities, and what role corporations have in this mess. (Highline)

Economics

• March jobs increased by 196,000. Find all of March jobs data here. (Yahoo Finance)
• With unemployment so low (3.8% now, see above) and the economy growing, many are asking why inflation in the US isn’t higher. (The Economist)

Investing

• Lyft price drops below IPO price. (Statista) And the price of shorting the stock doubled. (Bloomberg)

Insurance/Health Care

• Do you find it shocking that one in eight people had to borrow money to pay for health care last year? That’s $88billion. Read more on a recent West Health-Gallup survey. (CNN)

Living

Here are two great articles from the NY Times that address productivity in our tech heavy world.

• The first addresses managing attention versus managing time.
• The second addresses modern distractions.

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