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This week’s President’s Message is from Dave Hinchey, Director of Community Impact, on providing leadership in the employee financial wellness space. Let us know how the League and the League’s foundation—Credit Unions Building Financial Independence—can support your efforts.

President's Message

It's often said that practice makes perfect. And for good reason. Practice is how people acquire and perfect new skills. Trial and error works. Why is it then that so many of us develop a fear of failure as we grow up? Take, for example, learning how to walk or how to ride a bike. Babies taking their first steps often fall down and topple over and, when they do, they usually laugh and try again ...

There are so many federal crimes on the books but no one seems to know just how many there actually are. So, in 1982 the United States Department of Justice attempted to count them. They’ll get back to you on that…  

My usual morning routine was interrupted today by the richest man in all of the Amazon, Jeff Bezos, who followed Sir Richard Branson into space each using their own privately-built rocket ships. The Internet is awash with memes and jokes and even criticisms about the “second space race” or, as some call it, the latest feat of strength for today’s Billionaire. It's easy to make jokes (see the ...

My kids set up their first lemonade stand over the weekend and, aside from having a great time and making a shocking amount of money, they took an important first step on their way to financial independence.

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Federal Credit Union Act into law on June 26, 1934. Less than three weeks earlier on June 6, FDR sent a brief memo to the secretary of the Treasury (see above) with a short, declarative statement and a simple request.

On what was supposed to be a typical sunny summer day, the League’s charitable foundation, Credit Unions Building Financial Independence held its annual golf tournament. Mother nature had other plans and decided to provide a refreshing steady rain that cooled off our dedicated golfers. As I drove around the course to deliver much needed refreshments, the unofficial motto of the United States ...

As has been said for almost 1000 years, “tide and time waits for no man.” The legislative session will adjourn Sine Die (literally “without day”) at midnight Wednesday. Included among the select list of top-of-mind issues is the legalization of recreational cannabis use.  This bill (Senate Bill 1118) has led a twisted legislative life. Merely getting to debate on the floor was not certain until ...