A new report from BrightPlan, a financial wellness company, shows that financial literacy has declined, even as opportunities to learn about money abound. Yet, even after some financial ...

Because everyone interprets media through the lens of his or her own experience, media literacy analysis is about rich readings rather than specific “right” answers. These suggested questions are ...

Many American consumers fail to grasp the basic math of inflation, according to a large-scale study of financial literacy. The FINRA Investor Education Foundation, a financial education nonprofit, ...

Did you know that April is Financial Literacy Month? With taxes fresh on your mind and spring cleaning in the air, it's as good a time as any to brush up on your financial literacy. After all, as ...

If you chose “about two-thirds,” you’re correct, and you’re in the minority. Only about one in four Americans answered that question right on a financial literacy quiz, completed online in January by ...

Can you explain what risk diversification is? Identify the effects of inflation? Know how to calculate interest? If you answered yes to these three questions, you are better off than 43% of Americans ...

Since promoting financial literacy is a lifelong personal mission, I’m always looking for ways to encourage self-assessments to determine if more education is needed. A favorite resource of mine is ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. News literacy as a field is officially about eight years old. For four of those eight years, it has been funded by the McCormick ...