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How to Budget Your Money as a Teen

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Whether you’ve just started your first part-time job or want to make better use of an allowance, learning how to budget your money as a teen can help you get more out of your money. Budgeting doesn’t just help you save money or buy the things you want, either. The good news is, creating a budget doesn’t have to be complicated.

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5 Smart Money Hacks to Help You Budget for the Holidays

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How can anyone on a budget relax about money during the holidays? Here are a few hacks I’ve used over the years to help me both budget and enjoy the holidays. Consider it my gift to you, my fellow budgeters. Still, having a fixed sum in my head that won’t put me over budget leaves me freer to enjoy what shopping I can do.

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How Financial Wellness Programs Can Benefit Employees and Employers

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Gone are the days when new employees received a list of the company holidays during onboarding and a packet with information about how to sign up for health care and retirement benefits. More than age, he adds, the programs are meant to target specific life events. “We Such benefits can yield significant results.

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

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New Year’s resolution ideas to improve personal finance Create a monthly budget. Save more for retirement. Increase contributions to retirement accounts such as your 401(k) or IRA. Connect with more people by engaging in social gatherings and professional events. Set savings goals. Express daily gratitude.

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4 Steps Everyone in Their 20s Should Take to Beat a Potential Recession

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According to the Nationwide Retirement Institute, 15% of Gen Zers and millennials “reduced contributions to their 401(k) and similar retirement plans over the last year.” It makes sense that we’re here after a global event interrupted unprecedented growth. But if there was ever a time to make financial cutbacks, this isn’t it.

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How Toxic Positivity Can Hurt Your Finances

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Still, most people can recognize the benefit of planning for unexpected events before they happen and even take steps to lessen the impact these topics have in our lives, like creating an estate plan or an emergency fund. Or perhaps you promise yourself you’ll sit down and create a budget but never find the time.

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Brand Storytelling Guide: 7 Ways to Make Your Brand Pop

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Nearly everyone has a grievance regarding a home improvement contractor going over time and over budget. We publicized retirement planning blogs as part of our brand story of caring for seniors. But research found that over 90% of our audience had already retired. As an example, consider timeliness. But it did it focus.