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3 Steps to Take Before Going Into Business for Yourself

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Next, you’ll need to consider your current company benefits such as health insurance and retirement plans. Additionally, many companies offer a retirement plan and match employees’ contributions. That’s free money going toward your retirement that you’ll need to start saving yourself. First, what are you trying to accomplish?

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4 Ways To Financially Support Your Employees (Other Than Raises)

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There are undoubtedly countless Americans that are truly unable to save money, but many of these workers are employed in food service or retail industries, two industries that aren’t lauded for their treatment of employees. They teach employees how to budget, plan, and prepare for anything.

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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.” On top of that, the market created careers and industries that didn’t exist before. But if there was ever a time to make financial cutbacks, this isn’t it.

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The UK workplace sector reacts to the Spring Budget 2023

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Today the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, Jeremy Hunt presented his Spring Budget to the House of Commons. In it he announced what her referred to as his ‘four pillars’ of industrial and productivity strategy, namely: ‘Enterprise’, ‘Employment’, ‘Education’, and ‘Everywhere’.

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How to Know If You’re Financially Ready to Start a Business

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Market analysis: What are the current trends in your industry? Be clear on how you’ll set your business apart in your industry. Are you currently earmarking 15% to 20% of your income for retirement? But if you’re starting a business, then you generally won’t have income to put toward retirement at first.

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As I Enter My 60s, Here’s the Advice I Would Give to My Younger Self

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Now, as I watch the media industry implode, see companies downsize or fold completely, feel empathy for so many people getting laid off and read stories about pay inequity between men and women in similar roles, I’m so glad my business, my income and my future rests solely in my hands. Setting budgets. I wanted the “security” of a job.

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Tori Dunlap, Founder of Her First 100K is on a Mission to Close the Gender Pay Gap

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With a financial industry that disproportionately targets marginalized groups while giving advantages to cisgendered white men, the very act of a woman pursuing financial literacy and wellness is feminist. This industry was not created to be easily accessible for women, and it can be challenging to know where to start.