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5 Ways to Save Money This Holiday Season (Without Disappointing Anyone)

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It can be tricky when things come up like holidays, especially those gift-giving holidays, because they also coincide with events like buying new winter clothes for my kids, or family parties, teacher gifts,” she says. Refuse to enter January with a new pile of credit card debt There’s a reason credit card companies love the holidays.

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30 New Year’s Resolution Ideas to Make 2024 Healthier, Happier & More Secure

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Empower yourself to live debt-free by paying down high-interest debts such as credit cards. Ideally, this should cover at least three to six months of living expenses in case you lose your job or have unexpected expenses like medical bills. Improve your credit score. Reduce debt. Invest in an emergency fund.

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How Employers Can Better Serve Neurodiverse Employees in 2023

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After surviving a major medical event and a surgery that almost killed her, she found herself reevaluating her trajectory. “I According to 2020 research published in the British Medical Bulletin , “a reasonable estimate of all neurominorities within the population is around 15–20%.” But things only got more complicated.

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How Financial Wellness Programs Can Benefit Employees and Employers

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Employees are often grappling with a wide range of financial stresses, including recovering from a layoff, paying off high medical bills or credit card debt and grappling with student loans—but those stresses may not be known to their employers, Maston says.

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How Toxic Positivity Can Hurt Your Finances

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Resilience , on the other hand, lets you keep moving through a challenging situation like a scary medical diagnosis or job loss while still being able to acknowledge that things are hard. Suppose you rack up credit card debt with a you-only-live-once attitude and haven’t developed a plan to repay that money.

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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

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Agreements related to the use of a company car or business credit card. For instance, employers cannot include medical information in an employee’s general personnel file due to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Medical leave of absence requests. Family and Medical Leave Act paperwork. Doctor’s notes.

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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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What if he wrote down my name from my credit card and used it to find out who I was? Quite naturally, while these events were unfolding, I’d find myself leaning on the shoulders of the handful of Black leaders in positions of power for guidance. Looking back, having an ally would have certainly helped alleviate the pain.

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