Website Helps Working Families Make Finance, Investing Decisions

Have questions about buying or renting a home? Need a strategy to pay off debt or save for college? A new website from the National Labor College is bursting with information to help you make a wide range of personal finance and investing decisions.

Created in partnership with the AFL-CIO, the Investor Education Program is free of charge, and free of any sales pitches. "This website exists to help working families understand the concepts and tools that enhance everyone's financially security," the NLC says on the project's homepage.

With interactive features to help you plan your financial future, the website offers guidance on life's many happy events and its challenges — new babies, school tuition, marriage, divorce, preventing foreclosure, planning for funerals and more.

The website was well reviewed recently by Los Angeles Times personal finance columnist David Lazarus who called it a "straight-shooting resource" that distinguishes itself by refusing to endorse any specific products or services.

"It isn't trying to sell you anything," Lazarus wrote. "Many sites that purport to focus on financial literacy are in fact trying to deepen your relationship with a bank or brokerage."

"We have no skin in the game," Zach Teutsch, AFL-CIO investment education coordinator told Lazarus. "We're just offering information in plain English that's unbiased and easy to understand."

Click here or go to http://invested.nlc.edu to access the website.