Like most of us, my school curriculum did not include the basics of budgeting, financial planning, and investment — excluding that one lesson about how to fill out a paper check, which was squeezed in between how to sew a pillow and how to read a recipe. I wasn’t modeled these financial literacy concepts at …
While pandemic-era stimulus checks provided an opportunity for many people to save money, savings rates have been on a downward trend recently. From 2020-2021, household savings as a percentage of.