The entire financial education community accomplished a great deal throughout 2025. To promote these accomplishments and ensure a strong start to 2026, National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®) President and CEO Billy Hensley, Ph.D., conducted a national satellite media tour (SMT) on January, 8, 2026. The SMT aimed to highlight financial education achievements and raise national awareness by engaging with news affiliates nationwide.
Leveraging the new year to position financial education as a priority for schools in 2026, Hensley highlighted NEFE’s polling data on the demand U.S. adults place on the need for more financial education and illustrated how state leaders, educators and policymakers can influence high school graduation requirements at the state level.
“I really appreciate the conversations on the importance of financial education that I have with media members—those who have a great understanding of their communities and ask informed, thoughtful and challenging questions,” says Hensley. “It’s important to conduct these interviews with news affiliates nationwide because states are handling the requirements and implementation challenges in different ways, and we want to demonstrate that there are many considerations that lead to success in offering personal finance instruction.”
Here is a selection from the interviews Hensley conducted on the recent SMT:
- CNN Newsource & WSFA-TV NBC12 (Montgomery, AL)
- KPNX-TV NBC12 (Phoenix)
- WAGA-TV FOX5 (Atlanta)
- KOAT-TV ABC7 (Albuquerque)
- WKEF-TV ABC(Dayton, OH)
- WBZ-AM (Boston)
- WPHM-AM (Detroit)
- KFI-AM (Los Angeles)
Visit our Making the Case for Financial Education page to explore how you can support NEFE’s mission and become an advocate for financial education in your own community.
