There can be wide variance in your average monthly costs depending on where you live, and a new report analyzing what Americans pay each month in the 25 largest metro areas shows just where those […]
When it comes to money, 61% of women would rather talk about their own death, according to a report by Merrill Lynch and Age Wave. Meanwhile, 43% of people in a Fidelity study failed to correctly identify how […]
Preparing for a child can be a financially daunting task. It costs an estimated $233,610 to raise a child to age 17, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And that’s not including college. Before […]
Happy worker bees make a workplace more productive, and plenty of employers are starting to show their appreciation by ramping up the perks. In fact, according to a survey from the Society for Human Resource […]
It’s deeply personal. Discovering employee theft can be infuriating. After all, you hired, trained, and trusted the worker to help you grow your business, and that trust has been violated. This situation may be the […]
You already know you can get a free credit report, or all of your credit reports for free, once per year. But what about your credit scores? Lately, credit scores have become fairly easy to […]
Say it’s the fifth day of temperatures over 98 degrees in South Carolina during a summer of record heat. Your air conditioning system has kept you cool through it all. That is, until now. The […]
I’m very tight with my travel budget. As a freelancer, I have no company that will cover my business-trip costs. Given that, many people assume that I’m an economy-seat kind of girl. In theory, the bottom-dollar […]
Becoming an optometrist or dentist might make mom proud, but engineers, nurses and computer scientists are typically in a better position to tackle graduate school student loan debt after they enter the workforce — even […]
Everyone should treat saving money as a serious effort to accomplish serious goals. Building an emergency fund, accumulating a down payment for a home or saving up for a big purchase are all key objectives for […]