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.

I was disappointed to read that the bill requiring financial literacy education in schools failed (“Legislature has its own production of ‘The Holdovers,’” The Herald, March 12). Not every child comes ...