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 [...]
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 [...]
Despite the encouraging news that women in their 20s have more than made up the salary gap — with recent census data indicating that single, childless women outearn their male peers by 8 percent — women as a group are light years behind men in retirement savings. Why is that? For starters, as this Fidelity [...]
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 [...]
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 probably already know that buying a new car is a fast way to burn through your savings. But if you’re nervous about getting stung on a used car, fear not. Here [...]
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. Maybe you’ve just graduated and need to find a new place to live, or perhaps it’s time to say adios to your roommates and get a place of your own. Moving can [...]
It’s been a few years since Saturday Night Live produced this skit — and boy, has a lot changed in the global economy since 2007 — but its message will still make anyone interested in personal finance giggle. Starring Steve Martin and Amy Poehler as a frustrated couple in debt, the video hawks a free [...]
