Alva Review-Courier -

April is Financial Literacy Month. As consumers look forward to warmer spring temperatures and planning summer vacations in this post-Covid environment, many are battling sticker shock. With inflation at a 40-year high, difficult budgeting decisions are having to be made in every household.

With each fill-up of the gas tank or increasing cost of groceries on the shelf, consumers are having to make frustrating spending choices. Pandemic shortages and political unrest overseas has kept prices for goods and services volatile. Also contributing to the pain are increasing prices for rent and utilit...