It’s Time for a Revolution in Financial Education, Feat. Tyrone Ross

To decrease wealth inequality, one passionate financial adviser argues why financial education needs different content, from different voices, delivered through different channels.

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Financial education and financial literacy are at crisis levels in this country. Financial advisers spend billions on advertising but a fraction of that on education. The resources that are available tend to be inaccessible and not designed for the people who need them most. Financial media remains a boring, exclusionary acronym game.

The net result of all of this is a population of Americans who don’t have the mental tools to understand, make sense of and make good decisions around their finances.

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In this passionate conversation with NLW, financial adviser Tyrone Ross argues that all hope is not lost. According to Tyrone:

• Financial literacy is a cross-cutting crisis not limited to any one demographic
• Even the resources that do exist aren’t designed for the way their intended targets consume media
• Despite all the bad things happening, this moment is also providing an inflection point where change is possible

Find our guest online:
Website: tyroneross.io
Twitter: @TR401

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