COVID Woes Prompt More States To Require Financial Literacy Classes

Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Elaine Povich Studies have long shown that high school students are woefully uninformed about personal finances and how to manage them. But the COVID-19 pandemic, which revealed how many American adults live on the financial edge, has boosted ongoing efforts to make financial literacy lessons a school requirement.

Stateline, an initiative of The Pew Charitable Trusts. By Elaine Povich Studies have long shown that high school students are woefully uninformed about personal finances and how to manage them. But the COVID-19 pandemic, which revealed how many American adults live on the financial edge, has boosted ongoing efforts to make financial literacy lessons a school requirement.…