NPR PRESENTS ‘FAMILY MATTERS’
IN COLLABORATION WITH WAMC & WMHT
A CANDID CONVERSATION ABOUT PERSONAL FINANCE
HOSTED BY NPR’S DAVID GREENE AND YUKI NOGUCHI
FREE EVENT AT THE UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
OCTOBER 15 AT 7:00 PM
10/15/15; Albany, NY – Facing first-time loans as a college student or a new mortgage as a third-time home buyer both come with risks, opportunities and, of course, questions. To help upstate New Yorkers navigate these complex decisions, WAMC and WMHT join NPR to bring NPR Presents: Family Matters to Albany for a conversation about money at the University at Albany Recital Hall on October 15 at 7:00 PM. Tickets for the free event are available here.
In collaboration with NPR Member stations, NPR Presents: Family Matters is a live national events series that connects regular people with financial experts for invaluable conversations around money. Led by NPR Morning Edition host David Greene, Business correspondent Yuki Noguchi and Business reporter Sonari Glinton, these live (and lively) events are driven by an audience ready to talk strategy: from accumulating debt and amassing wealth; to saving for college, home ownership, retirement and even fitting in a midlife extravagance, or two.
In Albany, Greene and Noguchi will be joined on stage by personal finance experts Louis Barajas, founder and chief wealth and business manager at LAB Financial Life Solutions, and Michelle Singletary, nationally-syndicated personal finance columnist for the Washington Post, to leave audience members with greater confidence in their financial futures.
The public can follow and participate in these conversations with #NPRFamilyMatters.
Through reporting projects that have taken them to the living rooms, banks and offices where people are making big decisions about money, Greene, Noguchi and Glinton each have unique perspectives on the specific pressures families face today. Greene has been hosting Family Matters events in communities across the country since 2013. In the Morning Edition series ‘Family Matters: The Money Squeeze’, he joined three families to explore the financial challenges of the "sandwich generation” – those balancing elder-care costs, college-bound kids and post-employment retirement plans. Noguchi regularly reports on workplace issues –
from abusive working environments, to idiosyncratic cubicle culture – and national stories that strongly affect working Americans, such as the housing market meltdown and wage disputes. Glinton’s reports, which focus on the auto industry, advertising and consumer goods and behavior, trace and map out major innovations and developments driven by supply and demand.
NPR Presents: Family Matters is made possible by TIAA-CREF, which —for nearly 100 years—has helped millions of Americans pursue their financial dreams, and by a collaboration between NPR and NPR Member stations WAMC and WMHT, in New York.
ABOUT NPR
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ABOUT WAMC
WAMC Northeast Public Radio, a regional public radio network based in Albany, N.Y. that serves parts of seven northeastern states. Stations and translators are in twenty-six locations throughout the region. Alan Chartock is President and CEO of the network.
ABOUT WHMT
A trusted community resource for over half a century, WMHT Educational Telecommunications uses the power of non-commercial public television, radio, the web and other media to enrich the lives of more than a half million households throughout eastern New York state and portions of western Vermont, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Television broadcast channels include WMHT-DT (17.1), WMHT-Create (17.2) and WMHT-World (17.3). Radio stations operated by WMHT include WMHT-FM 89.1 & WRHV-FM 88.7 (classical public radio) and WEXT 97.7 (AAA public radio). WMHT also operates RISE, a radio reading service for the visually and print disabled. In addition, WMHT offers numerous community outreach and family learning initiatives that inspire, educate and entertain for a lifetime.
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Media Relations Contact: Cara Philbin 202.513.2757 / cphilbin@npr.org
NPR Presents: Family Matters
Live event at the University at Albany – University Recital Hall
Thursday, October 15, 2015 at 7:00 PM – Doors open at 6:30 PM
Reserve FREE tickets here (seating is limited)