Incoming Harvard freshman from Kansas developing personal finance curriculum [Video]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The World Economic Forum said in 2024, financial literacy in the U.S. is just below 50 percent.

It’s remained around the 50 percent mark for the last eight years.

Pathway Financial Education, located near 18th and Vine in Kansas City, works to increase financial literacy each and every day.

LaTasha Jacobs, the nonprofit’s executive director, said school districts across the Kansas City area have reached out to Pathway for their expertise.

“I think that a lot of them have teachers and instructors, but they don’t have a background in finances,” Jacobs said. “They don’t have a background in understanding how to manage their day to day, or their household income, let alone to teach someone else who is new or green to the information.”

A local student is hoping to fill the gap of personal finance education through her internship with Harvard this summer.

Katie Murphy is a writer, scholar and athlete. …