December 30, 2011 – 11:07 am
1. Create a new budget. A new year calls for a new budget. Rolling over an existing budget might be easy, but making changes now is easier than dealing with debt in the future. Have you moved, switched insurance, or added a new family member (child or pet) in the last year? Take into account what changed [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
In May, we brought you some of the lessons that having a summer job teaches teens who are working for the first time in their careers. Now that summer is in full swing, the Christian Science Monitor has some more valuable takeaways from that first job: Getting to know tax forms and direct deposit. Having [...]
Should colleges disclose to undergraduates the expected future salaries for people with degrees in their field of study? That’s the major question (no pun intended) posed by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, which compared the median lifetime earnings for bachelor’s degrees in a range of disciplines, from engineering and computer science to English [...]
This opinion column from the Kansas City Star shows such sensible advice for teens seeking out their first job that we couldn’t say it any better than writer Steve Rosen did: Every year around this time, I think about my first summer job and the money lessons I learned – mostly the hard way. I [...]
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. This year, it’s never too early for teens to be thinking about their summer job opportunities. A new analysis of data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that teen unemployment has skyrocketed in [...]
November 9, 2010 – 5:57 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. Browse Amazon.com and you’ll find thousands of personal-finance guides in publication. But not all reading material is geared toward young people who are just starting out and don’t have a complex stock [...]
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September 14, 2010 – 12:22 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. For the first time in history, total student loan debt exceeds total credit card debt in the United States. Borrowers owe almost $850 billion for education, compared with $826.5 billion on credit [...]
August 24, 2010 – 11:30 am
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. In a down economy and with so many people looking for work, job seekers should take every precaution to avoid giving employers a reason not to hire them. Make sure your application [...]
