A TIAA-Stanford University survey found that fewer people can correctly answer questions involving basic financial concepts. See how you fare.

U.S. financial literacy has dropped to a 10-year low, with surveyed adults correctly answering an average of just 47% of ...

The survey found that workers with very low financial literacy spent almost 11 hours every week dealing with money issues at ...

“Many individuals function with a poor level of financial literacy, which can diminish their financial well-being,” the study ...

Financial literacy education in the United States has improved significantly in recent years. More than 90% of states incorporate elements of financial literacy into their school curricula, either as ...

Financial literacy refers to the understanding and capability to make informed and efficient decisions about personal financial resources. It encompasses the knowledge of how money works in the world: ...

The average American, a recent poll found, loses $1,819 a year because of a lack of financial literacy. Add that together and that means Americans lose something like $436 billion annually because ...

One of the first efforts that President Abraham Lincoln signed into law immediately after the Civil War was the Freedman's Bank, which was "chartered to teach freed slaves about money." In America's ...

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