'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
In an image-centered culture where "fake it till you make it" bravado seems like good advice, a growing financial-education deficit is destroying many lives while illustrating a harsh reality: Some things in life just can't be faked.
Reporter Hadley Malcolm wrote, "The Treasury Department and Department of Education have teamed the past three years to assess financial literacy in U.S. high schools, and the results haven't been pretty: The average score of almost 76,900 students in 2010 was 70 percent. Last year's testing of about 84,000 students and this year's of about 80,000 students were both a point lower: 69 percent."
