Can I Pass a Financial Literacy Test?

Great news out of Pennsylvania. The state just made it a requirement for high schoolers to take a financial literacy course in order to graduate. It’ll start in 2026 and PA is one of 25 states to do it. How crazy is that? 25 states before Monday didn’t make it a requirement to teach us how to balance a checkbook or tell us when we got our first job you should contribute to your 401k immediately. I just opened a money market account. I’ve been leaving free money on the table for years while it accrued .00000001 interest in my savings! Instead we learned about biology and calculus, which maybe 10% of my graduating class uses today. I took the Philadelphia Inquirer's financial literacy test just to see what it looks like when a child is left behind. And here's how I did....
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