We already knew that Girl Scouts had good business sense – who hasn’t been sold a box of their tasty cookies at a high school or grocery store parking lot? But it turns out the girls take their economics seriously. Daily Finance has the details: A new curriculum of merit badges proposes to teach the [...]
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’ve read a newspaper in the past 3 years, you may have been alarmed at reports of a volatile stock market, high unemployment, and retirement plans in jeopardy. Ever wonder if [...]
Spinning off Tuesday’s post, the question remains: If you do manage to cut your spending on discretionary purchases, how much money does that help you save every year? Bills.com has a nifty Ways to Save Money feature that shows you how much your savings can add up if you sock away the money in an [...]
You’ve seen those commercials on TV that proclaim, “For just 50 cents per day, you can change someone’s life.” And while some of those charities are no doubt worthy, what if the life you could change were your own? This is not a gimmick. To see how spare change can add up, I was just [...]
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 [...]
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. First, we should start by mentioning that yes, you can buy a house with less than 20 percent down. The question is, Is it financially wise? There are some substantial benefits to [...]
The New York Times yesterday published a review of the Kaiser Family Foundation’s analysis of health-insurance premiums across the nation on its Prescriptions blog, which covers health-care issues. However, there is an economic fallacy lurking in its analysis worth pointing out. The blog says: If you live in Massachusetts or Vermont, the average monthly premium [...]
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. 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 [...]
