Your smartphone is capable of serving more roles than ever: navigator, research tool, newspaper… even financial adviser? Absolutely: with several money management apps already available, the Treasury Department’s MyMoneyAppUp Challenge is looking to both programmers and the public at large for new, innovative ideas that can bring more financial services to our fingertips.

Congratulations to NFTE Graduate Taylor Penny from Los Angeles. She'll attend Washington State University this fall. Taylor had an opportunity to visit the school thanks to Southwest Airlines and the Showing LUV campaign. She's LUVing her future thanks to NFTE and Southwest.

When it comes to financial literacy, most Americans are alarmingly uninformed. According to a 2009 study, adults earned only a C grade when their financial acumen was assessed, little better than high school students, who mainly received failing grades. In this Huffington Post article, Randi Weingarten explores the opportunities that exist to increase financial literacy across the United States.

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Everyday brings an onslaught of activity, and we are all inundated with new to dos. Staying in touch with a client, pursing a lead, or following up with a potential employer can easily fall by the wayside. Don’t let that happen.

For many young people today the interest in becoming an entrepreneur is higher than it has typically been in the past. The urge to become your own boss and start your own business is an idea that many have found that they are passionate about. While it’s good that you now know what you want to do with your future, what plans do you have to make this dream a more successful one?

If you are currently in college (or are thinking about attending) than picking the right courses is a good place to start with your goal, but which ones do you choose?

Recently Eduardo Saverin, co-founder of Facebook, has had the extraordinary privilege of experiencing a portion of his life portrayed by Hollywood on the big screen in the film “The Social Network.”   Now only a select few can actually say that they’ve had the chance to see this, and many of those people seem to have mixed feelings about whether they were exhibited in the most accurate of lights.