Being financially illiterate can lead to financial disaster, as it increases the likelihood of accumulating unsustainable debt burdens due to poor spending decisions or a lack of long-term planning.

Hawaii has recently adopted a measure to require high school students to take a financial literacy course in order to graduate.

(The Hill) — Personal finance classes have become a requirement for high school graduation in dozens of states in the past few years, sparking hope for activists that financial literacy is finally ...

DENVER, Colo. — After the pandemic put so many families in tough situations financially, communities started calling for more financial education for high schoolers. This year, more than two dozen ...

Crowd Street, the private market investment platform helping members achieve their financial goals by providing self-directed access to private market investment opportunities, today announced the ...

A free financial literacy class will meet from 5-6 p.m. each Tuesday starting Feb. 3 through March 17 at the Lima-Allen ...

ABOUT WHAT THIS CLASS COULD MEAN FOR STUDENTS. HOUSE BILL 342 HAS ALREADY BEEN PASSED IN THE HOUSE AND IN THE SENATE, AND IT WOULD REQUIRE INCOMING FRESHMAN STUDENTS ...

JACKSON TWP. − Roy Baker Jr. grew up in a family who lived from paycheck to paycheck. "I was raised in a financially illiterate household, and my entire working life before teaching was spent working ...

For Worcester resident April LeBlanc, going to a bank was never easy. LeBlanc, 45, has anxiety disorder, OCD, ADHD and a basic learning disorder, would get nervous whenever she would have to deal with ...