Financial education for adults
We help you help the people you serve. For adult financial educators, the tools here show our latest thinking on consumer financial behavior and effective financial education practices.
Comparison shopping: Explore Credit Cards
Share the Explore Credit Cards tool and help people practice comparison shopping, using comprehensive, unbiased data. Select the card features you want and see apples-to-apples comparisons. No registration required and no paid promotions.
Tools and resources to use with the people you serve
We've gathered our tools, worksheets, handouts, and audio recordings by topic. You can use these resources with the people you serve.
Resources for financial educators
Financial well-being
Following a rigorous research effort, the CFPB defined financial well-being and developed and tested a scale to measure it. Then, we conducted a national survey to measure financial well-being in America. Explore the resources below to find out more.
Five principles of effective financial education
The five principles build on insights about how people make financial decisions, marshalled from many fields of study, and on what we have learned about consumers’ own experiences in the financial marketplace.
Money motivations
Bridging the gap between a person’s intentions and their behavior can be a challenge for financial education practitioners. Our tools can help you understand and harness emotions and relationships that influence money decisions.
Webinar training
View our growing library of webinars or read the transcripts. Each webinar is added to the archive a few weeks after its presentation date.