Brokers, financial advice providers, and many others need to test peoples’ ability to manage their money. Nevertheless, there are some who debate such tests arguing that they aren’t useful for ...

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 did away with literacy tests. If a person failed the test, they were not allowed to vote. Dr. Thomas Ward, professor and department of history chair at Spring Hill ...

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At a time when the United States has plummeted in the global rankings of education standards, one of the country’s largest states is poised to scrap a test designed to measure the reading and writing ...

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Participants in 401(k) plans aren't smart about financial literacy, a survey from AllianceBernstein shows. Nor could most of them answer these 8 questions about finances. New research from ...

Turning back the clock, the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision on Shelby County v. Holder, struck down the key Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which originally required nine states (Texas ...

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July 4 is always a fine time to double-check how much you know about how the U.S. government works. Local 10 partner WKMG reported that according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, 878,500 ...