The Partnership for Financial Literacy Policy, which includes Junior Achievement, the Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, and the National Council on Economic Education (NCEE), hosted the forum. Honorary co-chairs include Senators Daniel Akaka (D-HI) and Michael Enzi (R-WY). Honored guests invited to attend include Representatives Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX) and Judy Biggert (R-IL). In addition, more than 200 Congressional staff persons are slated to attend.

The "Day on the Hill" event was sponsored by the American Institute of CPAs, Bank of America, Capital One, Freddie Mac, The Goldman Sachs Foundation, HSBC-North America, and State Farm.

"We at the NCEE believe our young people deserve to know about the economic system they will be working in, contributing to, benefiting from, and ultimately, inheriting," said NCEE's President and Chief Executive Officer, Robert Duvall, a member of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Literacy. "There are few matters which more directly address the traditional American virtues and values of self-reliance, individual responsibility, and good citizenship then economic and financial literacy."

Separately, the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives passed resolutions declaring April as Financial Literacy Month, underscoring the Congressional commitment to increasing public awareness and dialogue around the issue.