Consumer Educators, Now Is The Time For A Paradigm Shift Toward Employee Financial Education

In order to better reach all people, there must be a paradigm shift for consumer educators toward employee education. Workers with money problems cost their employers big money, and those money problems occur because of personal difficulties with credit, budgeting, and consumer rip-offs. Consumer educators are qualified to teach such concepts in the workplace, and this will in turn help more workers overcome financial obstacles to fully fund their retirement plans. Virginia Tech's Personal Finance Employee Education outreach effort (www.chre.vt.edu/~/pfee/) can help educators partner with employers