While noting that "economic activity has continued to strengthen and that the labor market is stabilizing" but expressing concern about high unemployment and tight credit, the Federal Reserve today announced it was keeping interest rates unchanged.

FoolProof, the Web-based financial literacy package piloted two years ago by the Credit Union Associations of Colorado/Wyoming, is on a roll signing up last week its 10,000th user overall and now counting 750 high schools.

Washington State has now joined its southern neighbor, Oregon, in enacting legislation to deposit public funds in credit unions.