Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...

Dear friends of HOPE,   "How did we get here," you might be asking yourself about right now. Well, it is a rather simple explanation. Here it goes.   "If you are financially illiterate, and you didn't understand the language of money, then in good times 'no problem;' the prosperity will paper ove...

Financial literacy (understanding the language of money) is absolutely essential to living a successful and independent life. That is what we are all learning as a result of a global economic crisis. It is what what comes to be obvious, when you recognize that the U.S. economy, the largest in the wo...