Money Smart Week @Your Library
The American Library Association is again partnering with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago for Money Smart Week @ Your Library in 2012.
Money Smart Week's mission is to promote personal financial literacy. Libraries of all types have participated in Money Smart Week, partnering with community groups, financial institutions, government agencies, educational organizations and other financial experts to help consumers learn to better manage their personal finances.
April 21-28, 2012
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Greetings!
This month's newletter includes resources for libraries to help the unemployed and small businesses in their communities.
Please let me know if I can help you with your efforts, and don't forget to contribute your ideas and resources to the Project Compass Florida website.
Pam Thompson
850.245.6633
[email protected] |
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Help for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs from the Florida Electronic Library
DemographicsNow features a new interface, making it simpler for your users to accomplish a number of tasks. The new look and functionality is highlighted by an advanced mapping tool that allows users to create customizable, printable maps with thematic scales in a variety of formats. The many benefits to your library business patrons include:
- Market sizing
- Segmentation
- Contacts within a segment
- Competitor identification
- Authentic credit ratings
- Expanded minority owned identification
- Legal business hierarchies (detailed business ownership classifications)
- Consumer and retail expenditures
- Lifestyle segmentation reporting capability
- Professional output, including charts and graphs
- Lists of businesses no longer in business (to enhance a business plan or market analysis with residential and location awareness/analysis)
The new DemographicsNow is the only eResource of its kind to provide mapping, addresses, mailing lists and essential tools to support the analysis required to complete an entire business plan. |
Tax Assistance for Unemployed Taxpayers
The Internal Revenue Service recognizes that many people may be having difficult times financially. Events such as job loss, debt forgiveness or tapping a retirement fund can impact taxes. The following is a list of free resources for tax preparation.
Free File: Do Your Federal Taxes for Free
Tax Center: Resources for Unemployed Taxpayers
VITA: The VITA Program generally offers free tax help to people who make $50,000 or less and need assistance in preparing their own tax returns. IRS-certified volunteers provide free basic income tax return preparation to qualified individuals in local communities.
Low Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC): Clinics represent low income taxpayers before the IRS and assist taxpayers in audits, appeals and collection disputes. LITCs can also help taxpayers respond to IRS notices and correct account problems. |
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Self Check
Self Check is a voluntary, free and simple online service of E-Verify that allows job seekers to check their employment eligibility first. From the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, this website is available in both English and Spanish.
All employers in the United States are required to verify the work eligibility of everyone they hire. Self Check enables individuals to enter the same information int o Self Check that employers enter into E-Verify. |
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How Does Your County Rate?
The Monthly Job Placement Report is a new management report developed by the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity and Workforce Florida Inc. to provide better, real-time measurement of job placement performance by the state's 24 regional workforce boards and the nearly 100 one-stop centers they direct to provide workforce services to job seekers and businesses. Regional workforce boards are ranked from 1-24 based on their job-placement performance.
The report was created in response to Governor Rick Scott's call for enhanced performance measurement in workforce and economic development focused on critical results that bolster Florida's economic recovery and growth. |
Can You Help?
Has your library had a financial literacy workshop? We are looking for ideas on how to recruit speakers.
Does your library have an e-government Web page? The Division of Library and Information Services E-Government in Florida Public Libraries website maintains links to Florida libraries with e-government webpages. We would like to include your library.
Please send your suggestions, ideas, or resources, along with any requests for assistance to Pam Thompson at [email protected]. |
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This program is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the Florida Department of State's Division of Library and Information Services. |
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