When it comes to financial literacy, most Americans are alarmingly uninformed. According to a 2009 study, adults earned only a C grade when their financial acumen was assessed, little better than high school students, who mainly received failing grades. In this Huffington Post article, Randi Weingarten explores the opportunities that exist to increase financial literacy across the United States.

AOL’s Cambio.com & NFTE are collaborating with the launch of a new content hub for teens to create businesses and learn to make smart financial choices.

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Eddie Brown, recipient of NFTE’s 2010 Entrepreneur of the Year Award, presents his inspirational autobiography, Beating the Odds:  Eddie Brown’s Investing and Life Strategies.  

This month, by proclamation of the President of the United States, is National Financial Capability Month, 2012.  In declaring April as National Financial Capability Month, President Obama said:

NFTE is partnering with Starbucks in April to support our educational programs in several cities and states. Your support and votes could help NFTE receive a donation of more than $150,000 from the Starbucks Foundation. That’s a lot of coffee and a ‘Grande’ investment in the future of thousands of young people.

Microsoft, a NFTE supporter and partner, along with the International Youth Foundation today unveiled Opportunity for Action, Preparing Youth for 21^st Century Livelihoods.

Written by NFTE Philadelphia Executive Director Sylvia Watts McKinney.

Recent data shows that high school graduation rates have improved. But the high school dropout rate in the U.S. still stands at 8.1 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

We all fail, and that’s How Failure Can be a Happy Blessing, says the Young Entrepreneur Council’s Robert Sofia. He suffered through several business failures but remained focused on his goal of entrepreneurial success.