Financially Smart Adults Start With Financially Smart Kids

A teacher sits with a small group of children around a table, teaching them about money. The children are interacting with piggy banks, coins, and paper money, and there is a chart on the table.

Many Americans are financially illiterate, not having been taught basic money facts when young; half of adults get simple money questions wrong. Wharton professor Olivia S. Mitchell stresses the importance of early financial education, highlighting the powerful role parents and educators play in shaping kids’ money mindsets.Read More