Research:
Impact of financial literacy and fraud prevention educational programs on consumer behaviors

Outreach:
Financial literacy for youth and low-income audiences, particularly the working poor; consumer fraud prevention; workforce preparedness

Interests:
Mr. Rupured implements and evaluates financial literacy and life skills programs to help youth and low-income individuals attain economic self-sufficiency.

Education:

Selected Publications/Presentations:
Rupured, M. (2003). Personal Financial Choices: Education for new Chapter 13 filers. 2003 Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, (R. Travnichek, ed.), p. 26.

Rupured, M. (2003). Perspectives: The entrepreneurial Extension Service. Forum for Family and Consumer Issues, 8(2). http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/pub/8(2)/rupured.html

Rupured, M., Koonce, J., & Bales, D. (2002). Moving the working poor to financial self-sufficiency. Journal of Extension, 40, #2. http://www.joe.org/joe/2002/april/a6.html

Koonce, J., Mauldin, T., & Rupured, M. (2000). Availability of employer-sponsored fringe benefits: A comparison of the working non-poor, near-poor and poor. Proceedings: Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, pp 19-25 (J.E. Morris & C. R. Hayhoe, eds.).

Rupured, M. (2000, July). Promoting upward mobility for the working poor. The Rural South: Preparing for the Challenges of the 21st Century, #11. Starkville, MS: Southern Rural Development Center.

Dolan, E., Stum, M. & Rupured, M. (1999). Addressing the economic security issues of same-sex couples in Advancing the Consumer Interest, 11, 1, pp 23-29 (N. I. Silber, ed). Columbia, MO: American Council on Consumer Interests.