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Most American adults said they wanted their states to require a semester- or year-long financial course to graduate from high school.
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A flurry of states in the US now requires financial literacy classes for high school students, covering topics such as budgeting, saving and managing debt.
Just seven states – Alabama, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia – earned an A grade, meaning they require students to take a semester-long personal finance course, or its equivalent, on a “report card” from the Centre for Financial Literacy at Champlain College in Vermont. Five states got an F, meaning they have “virtually no requirements” for personal finance education in high school.
