How Many Credit Cards Should You Have?
Figuring out how many credit cards belong in your purse or wallet can give you a headache. As new offers keep popping up ...
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Credit and Debt
Cures for a Debt Hangover
Holidays are seldomly easy on the budget. Birthdays too. Same for vacations and shopping sprees. Even if you try to temper your spending, tons of unexpected expenses arise ...
Money Management
Financial Basics for Service Members
In the military, you can use available resources to help prepare for your future. As far as saving money, you have various tools to help you build and secure your ...
Money Management
What Do You Need in Your Wallet?
We live in a time where people can access a surprising and alarming amount of information about our personal and financial lives with only a few critical details about ...
Workplace Finance
The Basics of Working from Home
There are many advantages of working from home. There is no commute back and forth to work, which saves ...
Workplace Finance
Reviewing Your Retirement Plan
The days when companies would provide pensions for their employees are rapidly dwindling ...
Homeownership
Building Equity in Your Home
If you own a home, the mortgage payments you make each month could help you build a substantial asset - home equity. The home equity you build represents how much ...
Homeownership
Down Payment Assistance Programs
For those at the low-to-moderate-income level, the most substantial barrier to homeownership are the closing costs and a down payment associated with ...
Paying for College
COVID-19 and Your Student Loans
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) Federal Student Aid office is actively watching the COVID-19/coronavirus emergency. If you are a student with an ...
Paying for College
Are Online Degrees Worth It?
In the fall of 2018, around 3.26 million students (16.6% of all U.S. higher education students) were enrolled in exclusive online education courses, according to the ...
Retirement
Getting Your Retirement Back on Track
The one-two punch dealt by the Great Recession of 2007-2009, followed by economic damage from the COVID-19 pandemic may have ...
Retirement
An Overview of Medicare
Millions of seniors in the United States rely on Medicare. Over 61 million individuals, as of late 2019, were enrolled in a Medicare health plan, and each year that number ...
Family Finances
Scammers and the Coronavirus
Coronavirus has shown us some of the best and worst in humanity. We have seen medical professionals, truck drivers, and other front line workers step up to the ...
Family Finances
Creating a Power of Attorney
You may have wondered what happens if your aging parent ends up losing their ability to make financial or health decisions. How will you or other family members help them ...
Small Business
Branding Your Business
An effective branding strategy makes your business stand out in a competitive marketplace. Online, it helps ...
Small Business
Social Media Marketing
Leveraging social media marketing can increase your customer base significantly ...
Family Finances
Stop the Robocalls!
Google, Apple, T-Mobile, and the U.S. government are each working hard to end robocalls as well as other types of phone-based spam. While we all wait for these calls ...
Family Finances
What is a Spoofing Attack?
Spoofing is where an unknown person disguises communications as a trusted and known source. It is a form of cyberattack that ...