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Scott Bessent: “Approximately 2/3 of generation Z Americans fail to answer…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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FULL SPEECH: Speaker Johnson and Scott Bessent Wrap Up the Trump Account Launch Summit - 01/28/26

Published | Video Starts at 20:45

Trump Accounts also create a real time laboratory and of financial literacy for all Americans, an alarming statistic. Approximately 2/3 of generation Z Americans fail to answer more than half of the basic financial literacy questions on the nation's personal Finance Index. We need to better educate the generations of Americans being born now. Trump Accounts will give us an opportunity to correct course by instilling financial literacy in America's youth in a way no book, test or school curriculum could. (20:45–20:57)

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Asserts that about two-thirds of Generation Z Americans struggle with basic financial literacy.

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