The National Financial Educators Council (NFEC) today released updated results from its National Financial Literacy Test, revealing that the average American score remains below the 70% passing ...

Even as  finance education increases in high school, the national average financial literacy score continues to fall short of ...

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 ...

The latest numbers on financial literacy are out, and they aren't pretty. U.S. adults got just 49% of the questions right on this year's personal finance index test, according to the 2025 Personal ...

The question topics range from networking and entrepreneurship to credit and budgeting.

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 ...

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 ...

For comparison, the nationwide average score for 15-18-year-olds – among the 52,572 total participants from this age group who have completed the test to date – is 64.04%. Thus Massachusetts teenagers ...

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, ...

Manor High School has been named one of the 2026 "100 Best W!se High Schools Teaching Personal Finance" by the nonprofit ...