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. If you’re a parent or plan to be, you are in a position shape the money habits your children will have, even as adults. Beyond living by example, there are a few ways to make sure [...]
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. Building wealth is only one side of the coin of getting rich; the other side is keeping what you have. And there are a number of ways you can do that, but [...]
In the home-buying process, the first question you must answer is “how much house can I afford?” And in an effort to determine that amount responsibly, you may have googled for a calculator like this one on CNNMoney.com, which will tell you that you can spend between 28% and 36% of your gross income on [...]
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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 [...]
February 8, 2011 – 4:32 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. With Valentine’s Day around the corner, men don’t have to be reminded that dating can be really expensive. But it doesn’t have to be. Here are five ways to avoid common relationship [...]
January 19, 2011 – 1:05 pm
Blue Monday, officially the most depressing day of the year, is coming up on January 24. How was it calculated? Here’s the official formula, courtesy of the U.K.’s Mental Health Foundation: According to the scientists who developed it, “The model was broken down using six immediately identifiable factors; weather (W), debt (d), time since Christmas [...]
December 21, 2010 – 2:34 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. According to a recent poll by Consumer Reports, a whopping 13.6 million Americans are still paying off the debt they incurred from last year’s holiday shopping. To keep yourself out of that [...]
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October 12, 2010 – 5:25 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. Intimidated by the idea of a budget? The Web has a host of great resources to guide you to making — and sticking to — a budget that works for you and [...]
September 28, 2010 – 1:16 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. You’ve heard of “good debt” and “bad debt,” but if your end goal is to be debt free, you have to just say no to any and all loans. That means you’ll [...]
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