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DoughMain Financial Literacy Foundation is a nonprofit dedicated to building a better tomorrow by educating people today, in order to forge a financially literate America.

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The Good News

Financial education is increasingly becoming a required topic.

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All 50 states and the District of Columbia include economic education in their K-12 standards, while 47 states include personal finance in their K-12 standards.
Twenty-four states require personal finance or economic education to be taken in high school as a stand-alone course.
Thirty-one states require high schools to offer courses on either personal finance or economics.
Both Ohio and Nebraska now require every high school student in their states to take one full semester of personal finance in order to graduate.

Council for Economic Education, Survey of the States 2022

The Bad News

Many states still choose not to make financial literacy a priority.

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Eighteen states and the District of Columbia do not offer or require personal finance or economics as part of their high school curriculum.
Legislation that would remove economic course requirements has been proposed in states, including Georgia and South Carolina.
When funding varies among districts, so does the quality and effectiveness of financial education, creating inherent inequities throughout the state.

Council for Economic Education, Survey of the States 2022