A 160,000-person study found financial education helps on average, but the median follow-up was 5.9 months and its authors call lasting effects inconclusive.
Seven Fed studies and three peer-reviewed papers all found the same thing: U.S. consumers paid 86-100% of tariff costs. Here’s the research and what it means for your budget.
69% say college is less important now. A 2026 grad will borrow $43,500 that costs $66,327 after interest. Here’s what 30 years of helping families with debt taught me about this decision.
AI chatbots give dangerously wrong Social Security advice. But the IRS won’t stand behind its own phone agents either, and SSA claws back its own errors. Where does right actually exist?
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The prefrontal cortex — the brain region governing financial decision-making — doesn’t complete development until age 25. Neuroscience shows why delivering financial literacy at age 16 is the wrong brain at the wrong time, and why decision-point education produces effects 48% larger.
Financial literacy for teenagers fails because the brain isn’t ready, the knowledge decays before it’s needed, and shame fills the gap when it doesn’t work. A 2014 meta-analysis of 201 studies found financial literacy education explains only 0.1% of behavioral variance. The right intervention is a lifelong, just-in-time delivery system built around psychological self-awareness.
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The Treasury Department wants public input on updating the National Strategy for Financial Literacy. But decades of research show that financial education alone doesn’t change behavior—because how we spend is emotional, not logical.
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