Tag: financial literacy

Dan Swedits, a certified public accountant and audit supervisor at Blum, Shapiro & Co., is one of a group of firm employees who have...

NEW YORK – High school students know very little about how financial aid works, according to a new analysis.An overwhelming majority of 11th and 12th...

PROVIDENCE – Cranston elementary school teacher James Gemma has been named Rhode Island's Financial Literacy Educator of the Year.Gemma, who teaches at Edward S....

Margaret Brooks | Rhode Island Jump$tart Coalition and Rhode Island Council for Economic Education president, Center for Economic Education at Bridgewater State University directorCollaboration...

Business Women Awards 2019 | HONOREE Margaret Brooks, Rhode Island Jump$tart CoalitionMargaret Brooks is passionate about empowering the state’s vulnerable populations via financial literacy, a...

Graduation season begins in the coming weeks. Thousands of graduating high school seniors in our state already have been making plans for the next...

Bruno Figueiredo | Vice president, associate readiness, Bank of America; chairman, Rhode Island Financial Literacy1. What is financial literacy? Financial literacy means having the...

Graduation season will soon be upon us, and with it, so many admonitions explaining why students are unprepared for the challenges of the real...

PROVIDENCE – Financial services website WalletHub recently ranked Rhode Island No. 42 among the 50 states and the District of Columbia for financial literacy.Rhode...

PROVIDENCE – General Treasurer Seth Magaziner says the Ocean State doesn’t measure up when it comes to educating students about personal finance.Magaziner’s office recently...