{"id":173810,"date":"2023-08-17T12:12:35","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T16:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=173810"},"modified":"2024-02-05T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:16:26","slug":"indigenous-man-works-to-help-financial-literacy-in-bipoc-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/indigenous-man-works-to-help-financial-literacy-in-bipoc-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous man works to help financial literacy in BIPOC communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Licensed Indigenous financial advisor and entrepreneur Bestt Blayze Peterson is working to promote financial literacy across North America<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:40,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Many BIPOC individuals struggle with saving, investing and managing their money,<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> Blayze Peterson says, so he is trying to do his part in educating on BIPOC financial literacy. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134245418&quot;:true,&quot;134245529&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a survey by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marugroup.net\/polling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maru Public Opinion,<\/a> one in five (21%) Canadians consider themselves very financially literate, while a majority (60%) admit to managing a personal or monthly budget, fewer (29%) have taken educational courses about finances or personal budget management.<\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Blayze Peterson says t<\/span>here are differences in financial knowledge between BIPOC and Caucasian community members. <span data-contrast=\"auto\">Peterson holds free online classes for Indigenous people to help them better understand the banking system (mortgages, investments etc.). Classes for the 2023 session<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\"> start at 7 p.m. MST and are <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">being held between October and November. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information, listen here: <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Licensed Indigenous financial advisor and entrepreneur Bestt Blayze Peterson is working to promote financial literacy across North America\u00a0 Many BIPOC individuals struggle with saving, investing and managing their money, Blayze Peterson says, so he is trying to do his part in educating on BIPOC financial literacy. \u00a0 In a survey by Maru Public Opinion, one&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":173812,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,221,16830],"tags":[12270,17110,21717,2152,6419],"radio":[25164],"origine":[267,269,273],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203341,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173810\/revisions\/203341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173810"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=173810"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=173810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}