Because everyone interprets media through the lens of his or her own experience, media literacy analysis is about rich readings rather than specific “right” answers. These suggested questions are ...

Yet, even after some financial belt-tightening and evidently learning to live with less during the pandemic, many Americans may be less equipped to deal with their finances than a year ago, according ...

Many American consumers fail to grasp the basic math of inflation, according to a large-scale study of financial literacy. The FINRA Investor Education Foundation, a financial education nonprofit, ...

Can you explain what risk diversification is? Identify the effects of inflation? Know how to calculate interest? If you answered yes to these three questions, you are better off than 43% of Americans ...

If you chose “about two-thirds,” you’re correct, and you’re in the minority. Only about one in four Americans answered that question right on a financial literacy quiz, completed online in January by ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. News literacy as a field is officially about eight years old. For four of those eight years, it has been funded by the McCormick ...

Since promoting financial literacy is a lifelong personal mission, I’m always looking for ways to encourage self-assessments to determine if more education is needed. A favorite resource of mine is ...

The Pew Charitable Trusts recently published a 10-question health literacy quiz, which features questions on cancer, infectious diseases and gut health, among other topics. October is Health Literacy ...