Senate Resolution 14 - Introduced

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2                 BY  WARNSTADT and BEHN
  1  3 A Resolution designating April 2005 as Financial
  1  4    Literacy for Youth Month in Iowa.
  1  5    WHEREAS, personal financial education is essential
  1  6 for ensuring that the youth of Iowa are prepared to
  1  7 manage money, investments, and credit with wisdom and
  1  8 responsibility; and
  1  9    WHEREAS, acquisition of financial literacy skills
  1 10 by Iowa's youth will improve the quality of their
  1 11 lives as adults, will provide them with skills for
  1 12 success, will contribute to positive changes for the
  1 13 communities in which they live and work, and will
  1 14 benefit the economy of this state; and
  1 15    WHEREAS, the goal of Financial Literacy for Youth
  1 16 Month is to increase public and educator awareness of
  1 17 the need to improve the personal financial literacy of
  1 18 Iowa's young people; and
  1 19    WHEREAS, this endeavor is worthy of support in
  1 20 order to benefit the citizens and consumers of this
  1 21 state and to protect the financial future of the
  1 22 state's youth; NOW THEREFORE,
  1 23    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  1 24 designates the month of April 2005 as Financial
  1 25 Literacy for Youth Month in Iowa and encourages
  1 26 parents and educators to participate in this
  1 27 observance with appropriate activities and exercises.
  1 28 LSB 2378SS 81
  1 29 jr:rj/gg/14
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