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Students with top scores on that exam will receive certificates - but chances for long-term benefits are slim. As it turns out, there is little evidence that traditional efforts to boost financial know-how help students make better decisions outside the classroom. Even as the financial-literacy movement has gained steam over the past decade, scores have been falling on tests that measure how savvy students are about things such as budgeting, credit cards, insurance and investments. A 2008 survey of college students conducted for the JumpStart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy found that students who'd had a personal...
...those Harvard students who's been missing the local cuisine throughout J-Term, you may be in luck. The opportunity has come to indulge in as much greasy fast food as you can, with the added benefit of a prize incentive—and eternal glory for yourself and Harvard...
SAGHAH’s short-term goal is to raise as much money as possible, while the long-term goal is to cement Harvard’s commitment to Haiti so that other organizations, such as PIH and HHI, can focus on their on-site response...
Song and Haverkamp also emphasized the need for the public to understand that aid requires a long-term investment...
...psychological or substance-abuse problems, comprise only 20% of the homeless population. Meanwhile, unemployment and foreclosure have sent tens of thousands of families into financial free fall. At the beginning of 2009, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities projected that the severe recession and the growth of long-term unemployment would push an additional 1.5 million people into the streets. Asks Roman: "Why should we think that people can get their lives together, get a job, keep their kids in school, when they live in a van or a shelter? It is not reasonable. People need the stability...