Richard Eckstrom

Greater focus on financial literacy will help young people get ahead

On: August 7, 2019

Most of us probably remember learning things in high school that we rarely if ever use as adults – like how to calculate the area of a trapezoid or how to solve a quadratic equation. Yet nearly all of us do, at some point, need to take out a loan,Continue Reading

Yes, it’s time to be alarmed about our pension system debt

By: John Griggs

On: July 11, 2019

In: Richard Eckstrom

A school in Colorado Springs, Colorado was shuttered. In Three Rivers, Oregon, the school board shortened the school year five days and laid off employees. Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, will no longer have police stationed in them under a city budget pending approval this week — a plan which wouldContinue Reading