literacy

Today, financial literacy often functions as yet another wedge separating haves and have-nots, only worsening retirement prospects for the worst off Americans.

There are also calls for supporting schools to tackle low literacy levels and other issues that some argue date back to the slave trade.

Between them, on Tuesday alone the royal couple visited the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence, a food bank, a social housing project, a literacy initiative and a community barbecue.

Teaching digital literacy can begin as early as preschool, fostering responsible online citizenship and empowering children.

Other research shows that boys tend to be slightly more proficient in financial literacy, and women are twice as likely as men in adulthood to have negative feelings about money.