September 6, 2011 – 12:08 pm
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. There’s a difference between dating cheap and being cheap — we’re not endorsing the latter, but there are many ways to show your crush a creatively good time without emptying your wallet. [...]
September 2, 2011 – 9:14 am
Labor Day marks the unofficial end of summer, and for many teens and young adults, it also means the conclusion of the worst summer for finding seasonal employment in decades. Our affiliate, the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), has released an analysis of new Census Bureau data showing unemployment among people ages 16 to 19 at or [...]
August 26, 2011 – 9:33 am
In our popular Celebrity Financial Mistakes feature, we pointed out Burt Reynolds’s inglorious fiscal past, declaring bankruptcy once before: After a red-hot career in the 1970s, Burt Reynolds bought himself a helicopter, multiple vacation homes, and a sprawling Florida ranch, but his divorce from actress Loni Anderson left him broke (though he got to keep the [...]
August 23, 2011 – 12:34 pm
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. First, we should start by mentioning that yes, you can buy a house with less than 20 percent down. The question is, Is it financially wise? There are some substantial benefits to [...]
August 16, 2011 – 4:05 pm
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. At the beginning of the summer, we brought you our tips on finding your first apartment. Now it’s time to make your space your own. Read on for our advice for doing [...]
If you’ve followed the conventional wisdom of making a budget to live within your means, you may think you can just kick back and reap the benefits, right? Not exactly. There are a number of life changes that will require you to tweak or even completely redo your budget. Here are a few of the [...]
Last weekend, D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray granted an audience to high-school and college students in the Nation’s Capital to discuss the high teen-unemployment rate. At the beginning of the summer, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that teen unemployment had skyrocketed, with half the states showing unemployment rates above 25 percent. Even more depressing, the jobless rate [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. After paying for housing and utilities, the grocery bill is often the largest single line item in a household budget. So if you haven’t already tried these tips to shave dollars off [...]
While we can’t offer you respite from the heat wave oppressing much of the country, we can bring you good news of upcoming sales tax holidays to ease the burden on your back-to-school shopping budget. (Don’t have a household budget? This is a perfect time to create one and educate your kids about what all [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. CDs, money markets, and Roths — oh my. The world of saving for the future is an alphabet soup, but we’ve put together this handy glossary for helping you figure out where [...]
