The American Public Education Foundation Launches Free-To-Use Financial Literacy Library

COLLIERVILLE, Tenn., May 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the non-profit American Public Education Foundation launched the Financial Literacy Resource Library, a free-to-use digital library of private finance content material for academics, college students, and fogeys/guardians. The basis’s staff has labored over the previous yr to mixture one of the best monetary literacy content material from throughout the online with the purpose of making ready our nation’s kids to make sound monetary selections.

This initiative comes on the heels of the muse’s July launch of The Nation’s Report Card on Financial Literacy, a complete replace to its nationwide report card on Ok-12 state-mandated private monetary schooling in all 50 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.

“We are thrilled to launch this easy-to-use web site, for free of charge, to academics, dad and mom, and college students throughout our nation,” says David Pickler, Executive Director of the American Public Education Foundation. “This is one more thrilling initiative our basis has created to battle the monetary illiteracy epidemic our nation is dealing with. With this library of phenomenal content material, our basis is main the way in which in selling, and advocating for, private finance schooling in each house and classroom in the United States of America.”

Financial illiteracy is an American epidemic and the issue is rising. According to The Aspen Institute, 16% of suicides within the US happen in response to a monetary drawback. The American Public Education Foundation’s report card on monetary literacy – launched in July 2021 – discovered that two-thirds of states (35 states together with Puerto Rico and Washington D.C.) earned grades of “C” or much less for monetary literacy instruction, with simply 17 states incomes grades of “A” or “B.”

View the Financial Literacy Resource Library: https://www.fllibrary.org/
View The Nation’s Report Card on Financial Literacy: https://www.thenationsreportcard.org/

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About the American Public Education Foundation: The American Public Education Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit group whose mission is to assist educate, encourage and lead with all these concerned in public schooling and put together the subsequent technology of leaders for engaged citizenship. The basis’s focus is on monetary literacy and workforce improvement. Take motion at www.theapef.org

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