WASHINGTON — As a past vice president of the California Credit Union League and of the Vista Federal Credit Union, Laura Levine has worked on the state and local government levels to improve financial literacy.
On Monday, she was using her skills and experience on a much bigger stage when she presided over the sixth annual Financial Literacy Day on Capitol Hill.
"The event began because of concern about the rise in bankruptcies and the low national savings rate. Things have gotten better but there is still work to be done to reach young people, so they don't make the same mistakes that their parents' generation did," said Levine, the executive director of the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, a group of government and private-sector organizations that sponsored the event.
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