National Financial Capability Month, 2017

Proclamation 9584 of March 31, 2017

National Financial Capability Month, 2017

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

The ability of Americans to plan, save, and invest is
vital to their building wealth and pursuing the
American Dream. One of my first actions as President
was to issue an Executive Order entitled ``Core
Principles for Regulating the United States Financial
System,'' and its first core principle is that
financial regulation should ``empower Americans to make
independent financial decisions and informed choices in
the marketplace, save for retirement, and build
individual wealth.''

Empowering Americans to make independent financial
decisions and informed choices is critically important
to our Nation's prosperity. Yet more than half of
households today do not have 3 months of funds saved
for emergency, and most families with children are not
currently saving for college. In addition, a majority
of working Americans worry about running out of money
in retirement, and nearly a third of workers have no
retirement savings at all.

We must address these challenges. Creating and
implementing innovative financial education curriculums
is critical. For example, the Department of Defense has
made long-term financial security education
opportunities available for our service members and
their families. As a result, the men and women of the
Armed Forces can plan a healthy financial future by
seeking advice from personal financial managers and
counselors.

My Administration will work with committed
organizations in all sectors to improve financial
education and share best practices so that all
Americans--no matter their income, education, or
background--have the capability to make sound financial
decisions. Together, we will empower Americans to take
advantage of the many opportunities they have to attain
more financially secure and prosperous futures for
themselves and their families.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by virtue of the authority
vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the
United States, do hereby proclaim April 2017 as
National Financial Capability Month. I call upon all
Americans to observe this month by engaging in
activities that improve their understanding of
important financial decisions.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
thirty-first day of March, in the year of our Lord two
thousand seventeen, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
first.