This article describes the current status and trends in the past three decades (1990–2019) of the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning (JFCP). Since its first issue published in 1990, JFCP has become a major research outlet in consumer finance. The journal publishes cutting-edge,...

Now in its third decade, the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning evolved to serve the needs of an international research community. The content analysis presented here focuses on the patterns in the second decade of publication (2000-2009), highlighting research and publication trends,...

Twenty-nine scholars from public and private universities, non-profit organizations, and the federal government participated in a National Research Symposium on Financial Literacy and Education in October 2008 in Washington, DC. The purpose was to identify critical research questions that could...

The Federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) affords cash-strapped and credit-constrained working families the opportunity to increase their purchasing power and savings potential. Mixed methods were used on a sample of 237 rural working mothers who participated in a multi-state study....

The Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning has been consciously adapting to the emerging publication trends among business periodicals for the past several years. Since 2006, efforts to improve the visibility of and access to JFCP have included expanding the number and type of indexing...

Since 2006, the editor of the Journal of Financial Counseling and Planning has worked to increase its visibility among researchers with its inclusion in a variety of indexing services. As a result, JFCP is now indexed in 30 multi-disciplinary and subject-specific databases. The 2008 inclusion of...

The differences between rural low-income mothers who were participants and non-participants in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) were examined. One-third of the 224 eligible mothers in a multi-state study did not claim the tax credit. Non-participants were more likely to be Hispanic, less...

The differences between rural low-income mothers who were participants and non-participants in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) were examined. One-third of the 224 eligible mothers in a multi-state study did not claim the tax credit. Non-participants were more likely to be Hispanic, less...