The goals of Economic Development are to explore national and local trends that create unstable economic circumstances such as unemployment, underemployment, threats to Social Security, and wage inequities. The current National Economic Development initiative is Financial Fortitude, a process designed to help program participants set and define goals, develop a plan to achieve them, and put the plan into action.

The following are the ten focus areas of Economic Development: Goal Setting, Financial Planning, Budgeting, Debt Management, Savings & Investments, Retirement Planning, Homeownership, Insurance, Estate Planning, and Entrepreneurship