VT Digger - The Legislature has sent a bill to Gov. Phil Scott that would create a publicly administered retirement plan for employees of small businesses by 2019.
7 Days - Stowe Street Café is a family-owned coffee shop in Waterbury that hosts community events such as Friday Night Sushi & Bring Your Own Vinyl. Its baristas are among the 104,000 Vermonters who, according to the AARP, don't get retirement benefits through their work.
Shelburne News - Five Champlain Valley Union High School students put their knowledge of personal finance and economics to the test in last month's Treasury Cup Challenge.
Wall Street Journal - At least 20 states introduced legislation this year to bring retirement-savings plans to private-sector employees
Vermont Business Magazine - State Treasurer Beth Pearce, House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, Champlain College Center for Financial Literacy Director John Pelletier, and members of the Vermont Financial Literacy Commission today urged policymakers to act on the recommendations contained in the Commission’s 2017 Financial Literacy Report.
Vermont Business Magazine -- Ten teams of Vermont high school students competed last week to test their knowledge of personal finance and economics at the 2017 Vermont Treasury Cup Challenge, an annual event hosted by Vermont State Treasurer Beth Pearce.
At a panel discussion Thursday, Vermont officials discussed how different economic approaches could help address poverty in the state.
WCAX - "The :30" - Vermont will soon join a handful of states working to ease the financial challenges of the disabled.
VT-Digger - The state treasurer unveiled a program Wednesday that will allow people with disabilities to build investment accounts without losing state and federal benefits.
Vermont Business Magazine Vermont State Treasurer Beth Pearce announced today that Vermonters with disabilities can now start saving and investing in tax-advantaged VermontABLE accounts, making Vermont one of only a handful of states to offer a plan since President Obama signed the Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act into law in December
