Brokers, financial advice providers, and many others need to test peoples’ ability to manage their money. Nevertheless, there are some who debate such tests arguing that they aren’t useful for ...

Financial literacy not only leads to better investment outcomes, it can save you time If you're like most people, the "Big Five" financial literacy questions at the end of this column will be a "Big ...

Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. When the 2021-2022 session of the North Carolina General Assembly begins work, ...

Participants in 401(k) plans aren't smart about financial literacy, a survey from AllianceBernstein shows. Nor could most of them answer these 8 questions about finances. New research from ...

Turning back the clock, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision on Shelby County v. Holder, struck down the key Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which originally required nine states (Texas ...

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 ...

Just 31% of pre-retirees and retirees could be considered financially literate when it comes to retirement income, according to a recent study by the American College of Financial Services. But maybe ...

Following the Civil War, many Southern states administered literacy tests to prospective voters. However, some states enacted a grandfather clause in the early 1890s. The clause waived literacy tests ...

Understanding how financial literacy changes as men and women age is important for improving educational interventions and ...

At a time when the United States has plummeted in the global rankings of education standards, one of the country’s largest states is poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing ...

A major laborers’ union with a large Hispanic immigrant membership is using an English literacy test to disqualify candidates from running for leadership positions in the union. The English competency ...