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.

In an increasingly complex financial world of buy-now-pay-later schemes, scams, and social media marketing, there are renewed ...

A growing number of states require high schools to teach the basics of free-market capitalism in their financial literacy ...

It’s hard to find time in the school year for everything a student should learn before graduating from high school. Practical education courses we remember from high school, like home economics and ...

Financial illiteracy costs the average American $1,015 a year. This isn’t just some abstract statistic — it’s real money lost to bad budgeting, high-interest debt, and missed chances to grow wealth.

A quarter of Belgians score below average on a knowledge test with questions about money and investments according to research by Dutch bank ING. This means that Belgians perform significantly worse ...