Being financially illiterate can lead to financial disaster, as it increases the likelihood of accumulating unsustainable debt burdens due to poor spending decisions or a lack of long-term planning.

I have spent many years trying to provide insight and educate the public with a focus on health promotion/disease prevention. The issue of health literacy is an integral component to assist ...

Financial literacy is not just a valuable asset; it’s a necessity for sustainable wealth building. Understanding how to budget, invest, and manage debt empowers Canadians to make informed decisions ...

Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...

It's no secret New Zealand is facing a literacy crisis. Education Minister Erica Stanford has voiced serious concerns about the reading and writing abilities of our tamariki, noting many are not ...

Estate planning and financial literacy should go hand in hand. Yet, in the U.S., we have a fundamental problem: Financial education is largely missing from our school systems. We don’t teach our kids ...

International Literacy Day 2025: On September 8, 2025, the world comes together once again to mark International Literacy Day, a day that underscores the power of words in shaping lives, societies, ...

JACKSON TWP. − Roy Baker Jr. grew up in a family who lived from paycheck to paycheck. "I was raised in a financially illiterate household, and my entire working life before teaching was spent working ...

As we increasingly succumb to the temptations of touchscreens and AI, do we risk creating a generation with its head in the cloud? Thankfully there’s a solution: the printed page. There is little that ...

Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...