financial literacy

If you lack money smarts, you're not alone. But the ranks of the financially inept might shrink a bit over the next seven days, thanks to the Money Smart Week program, a partnership between the American Library Association and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

Every January, we plan to make changes, and we often don't succeed. Let's make this New Year's different: Here are seven fairly simple resolutions recommended by the financial experts for getting you on a firmer fiscal footing in 2012.

Those Girl Scouts aren't just about selling cookies -- the green-sashed entrepreneur who supplies your Thin Mints is also preparing to be the boss. The GSA now offers 13 merit badges to teach its more than 3 million members financial literacy -- everything from good credit to savings and investing.

While I applaud most efforts to improve kids' financial literacy, I still raise an eyebrow when famous jocks get involved. Such is the case with Super Bowl-winning quarterback Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints. Brees is teaming with Visa to pump up students' knowledge about handling money. He...

In anticipation of National Money Night Talk on Thursday -- an evening that American Express and I have dedicated to helping you talk to your kids about money -- we asked bloggers at three prominent money blogs to get top savings tips from their readers. They poured in. Here, our favorites:

The U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives begin this week to meld their respective bills on financial reform – a massive regulatory overhaul that could impact everything from how you get credit cards or mortgages to how you pick a financial advisor. At first glance, you might think...

The New York Stock Exchange is marking Financial Literacy Week by launching a new financial education site, NYSE MoneySense. The exchange's David Cautin says visitors to the site can bone up on saving money, protecting assets, spending wisely and, of course, investing.

April is Financial Literacy Month, so we thought you might benefit now from a test of your acumen. This will help you determine what topics you need to bone up on for the month ahead, so that by the time April 1 rolls around, you'll be ready to prove your financial literacy. Here are 10 quick...

Ever since public schools began, they've been teaching kids knowledge, in hopes that they'd be able to find good jobs and make money.Now, they're finally starting to teach kids to keep their money.There have been states that have been teaching personal finance for a while now. According to a...

With the economy as the number one story now that the election is out of the way, there's a lot of evidence that few Americans have the tools to understand how it works.A recent Jump$tart survey of high seniors found that the average high school senior scores about 50% on a basic financial literacy...