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A Millennial’s Guide to Finances: 5 Things to Start Before You Turn 30

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Welcome to adulthood, where your credit score is (hopefully) lit. Drew Parker, creator of The Complete Retirement Planner, encourages young adults to check their credit score each year, aiming for that sweet spot of 720+, where you will receive the best loan, mortgage and credit card rates. Wiedman, D.B.A.,

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7 Money Mistakes You’re Making in Your 20s

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You work hard for your money and have lost track of how many times you’ve gone above and beyond to help a co-worker or put in overtime to finish a project. Paying credit card interest or fees. A credit card can be a useful tool. The credit card companies have enough money, so why give them more?

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Have a Strategic Plan So You Can Cash Out On Your Terms

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You don’t necessarily need to retire from work, but focusing on how you would live your life if you weren’t subject to a boss dictating your time can help you determine what’s essential in your life and what you want to make a priority. Include balances of your non-retirement accounts and other assets. Developing a spending plan.

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7 Apps to Teach Kids About Money

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A 2017 study found that disparities in financial literacy may account for as much as 40 percent of the wealth gap between those retiring with more and those retiring with less. The final destination in this digitized version of the classic board game is the yellow tile labeled “Retirement.” The Game of Life. Google Play : 4.1.

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When Considering Your Investment Strategy, Keep These 3 Rules in Mind

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Or “Teenage Prodigy Sells NFT of School Art Project for $5 Million and Has Lunchroom Named After Him.” Now there are even cryptocurrency credit cards that reward you in crypto, much like you would earn hotel points or airline miles. Don’t believe the hype. But there’s more to these stories than meets the eye.

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

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Anytime I thought about the trip or the project came up as a topic of conversation in meetings, I found myself spiraling down a path of worst-case scenarios: What if the server had put something in my food? What if he wrote down my name from my credit card and used it to find out who I was?

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Stacey Abrams’ New Co-Authored Book Details the Struggles Black Entrepreneurs Still Face and Why Business Partnership Differences Can Be Your Superpower

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And we got to see each other pursue a passion to reform part of the state’s foster-care system through the community service project our team spearheaded. For this reason, many Black business owners cannot access loans from traditional lending institutions and often turn to credit cards, their own savings or nonprofit community lenders.