April is National Financial Literacy Month. To mark the occasion, MarketWatch will publish a series of “Financial Fitness” articles to help readers improve their fiscal health, and offer advice on how ...

A first-time global financial literacy study shows that the keys to successful personal finance education are student perseverance and an openness to problem solving. That’s one of the main findings ...

While there’s been a slight uptick in financial literacy among young people, Americans’ overall financial knowledge and understanding is still shy of what they need to get through life, according to ...

If you think you’ve mastered financial basics, you’re either overconfident or in the minority. A new report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center shows that the average American scored ...

If you ask any adult educated in the U.S. whether they got a solid financial education in grade school, the answer is probably “no.” Instead, people learn the hard way. “At 18 years old, I had a car ...

Financial literacy programs have been called useless in the past. But a new study suggests that's due to the way the subject is taught, rather... Financial literacy education does not have a great ...

Can you pass the high school financial literacy quiz? Here's your chance to find out. (To check your answers, click the "answers" link in the box at right.) 1. Inflation can cause difficulty in many ...

ASBURY PARK - With summer jobs and first paychecks on the way, a group of 11 teenagers gathered at the Boys & Girls Club here to learn the basics of building wealth. It sounded easy enough. Open a ...

Financial literacy is the foundation of financial wellness. It prepares individuals with the fundamental knowledge they need to make the best decisions for their individual circumstances. Not only ...

A paper studies just how financially literate LinkedIn users are, with the so-called Big Three literacy questions as their starting point. Numerous papers and researchers contend that Americans have ...

Find out which states did best on FINRA’s financial literacy quiz. Money; Getty Images America’s financial literacy report card is in, and the results aren’t good. Only 27% of U.S. adults passed a ...