Financial Fitness with Alan Akina - Becoming Financially Literate

We want to help you be financially literate.

There are lots of benefits if you are. Alan Akina has more in this week's financial fitness tip.

Good morning, everyone. Last year, President Obama named April National Financial Literacy Month for good reason. Financial education can help prevent another economic crisis and can improve the lives of everyone who participates. Now, here are just a handful of benefits of being financially literate. You can have financial peace of mind. You can be debt-free. You'll be able to make wiser choices on all of your purchases. You can own a positive credit score and never ever sign on a bad loan again. You also can retire on time and in style. Now, a very important starting point is to not be afraid of your finances. It's not rocket science, folks. I broke down all of the major aspects of financial education into 4 simple-to-understand topics that we'll cover in future segments. Now, there's money in, there's money out, there's money that we owe, and there's money that we grow. Let's take the time to make every month a financial literacy month and use April as our first step. For Wake Up Today, I'm Alan Akina. See you next week.

Thank you, Alan. Here's a traffic alert for you now.