savings

• CDCU College Program Featured on TV

  By David Morrson  |  April 19, 2013

  Hope Credit Union of Jackson, Miss., participates in the state’s college savings account program.

• NCUA Announces $50K Low-Income Collaboration Grant

  By Heather Anderson  |  January 11, 2013

  The NCUA’s Office of Small Credit Union Initiatives will accept applications for a $50,000 grant from Feb. 15 to March 15.

• Baby Boomers Spending More on Education, Children

  By Paula Aven Gladych  |  September 20, 2012

  Savings not going as much retirement in the 45- to 64-year-old set.

• Middle Class Families Experience $10,500 Drop in Assets: Report

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  September 18, 2012

  Report from Consumer Federation of America and Primerica finds drop since 2007 in large part from falling housing prices.

• Health Care Choices Second Hardest Behind Retirement Savings

  By Michael K. Stanley  |  September 17, 2012

  Americans feel that choosing their health care benefits is their second-most difficult major life decision, second only to saving for retirement.

• North Carolina Senate Passes ‘Save to Win’ Bill

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  May 16, 2011

  Tarheel Senate passes savings raffle measure, opposition may form in House.

• Nebraska Governor Signs Savings Raffle Bill

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  April 27, 2011

  Cornhusker State on Wednesday becomes latest to approve raffle savings bill after Nebraska governor gives his signature to enabling legislation.

• Savings Group: Banker-Led Savings Raffle Attacks Won't Slow National Movement

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  April 19, 2011

  Banker attacks will not stop more states from adopting credit union savings raffles, according to a Boston-area savings advocacy group.

• Baffled Banker Challenges Iowa Legislator on Savings Raffle Bill

  By Michelle Samaad  |  April 14, 2011

  An Iowa legislator and credit union board member was dumbfounded by an eleventh-hour phone call from a banker on an upcoming vote.

• Savings Raffle Bill Dies in Iowa, But Nebraska Different Story

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  April 14, 2011

  The Iowa House has listened to bankers and killed a 'Save to Win' CU lottery bill. Not so in Nebraska.