August 31, 2010 – 1:51 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’re probably not thinking about tax season right now, but fall is a great time to revisit your tax planning strategies. Here are a few tips to make the most of your [...]
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August 24, 2010 – 11:30 am
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. In a down economy and with so many people looking for work, job seekers should take every precaution to avoid giving employers a reason not to hire them. Make sure your application [...]
August 17, 2010 – 2:21 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. There are 246 million cars owned in the United States, so chances are good you have one of them. But next to a house and an education, a car may well be [...]
August 10, 2010 – 5:15 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. When things get really tight, it’s important to know what your options are to get you through a bumpy ride. This week, we help you make a plan for how to make [...]
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. To lure back-to-school shoppers into the mall, many states are offering a sales-tax holiday this weekend, saving consumers money on big-ticket purchases like computers, software, books, apparel, and footwear. Last year, 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’re unemployed at the moment, we don’t have to tell you that the situation out there is pretty grim. But you’re not alone: The Senate passed a bill last week extending [...]
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. When the siren calls and you are tempted to spend big on a purchase, consider that certain used goods can stretch your dollar much farther for the same value. What items should [...]
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. As we’ve blogged before, this is a tough summer to be a teenager. There are very few job opportunities for unskilled workers this year, as evidenced by the 26.4 percent national unemployment [...]
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 new college graduate, it’s entirely possible you’ve never interviewed for a job in a formal office environment. (And even if you have a few internships under your belt, it [...]
If you’ve ever overdrawn your bank account, there’s a decent chance that a company called ChexSystems knows about it. Classified as a consumer credit reporting agency, ChexSystems operates a database that member banks can use to report bounced checks and other activity it classifies as “suspicious.” On the record, ChexSystems is a tool that banks [...]
