HACM Celebrates Graduates of Make Your Money Talk program

The Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee (HACM) and partner Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corp. (WWBIC) held a graduation ceremony for graduates of HACM’s Make Your Money Talk program, a financial literacy initiative that teaches HACM residents about budgeting, improving credit scores, and personal finances. HACM residents who participate in the program can open an Individual Development Account, in which their savings are matched from a fund supplied by the housing authority. Since 2004, the program has had 2,331 graduates; 1,083 of whom opened an IDA.