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

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Calculate your monthly income, track your spending, determine your goals and priorities and develop a plan to manage your expenses. Save more for retirement. Increase contributions to retirement accounts such as your 401(k) or IRA. Limit money habits that can leave you broke such as expensive dining or luxury items.

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Lessons From Past Recessions

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What are my basic monthly living expenses (including food, shelter, health insurance, utilities, phone, transportation and childcare)? Am I anticipating any major life events with significant expenses attached (like a new baby or retirement)? Where can I cut back on the rest of my spending if it becomes necessary?

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44 Ways to Kick-Start Your New Year

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Call one of your children on the phone. I want my financial future to be bright and to have no worries when I’m older and ready to retire. Find a mentor. I want to evaluate my cost-of-living expenses and see where I can cut back. Ask questions of mentors and peers. Review your expenses as a couple.

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You Will Survive: 8 Strategies to Overcome New Entrepreneur Anxiety

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There is an escape from the Money Panic, and it doesn’t involve selling off retirement investments or increasing your credit card limit. Cut expenses to the bone. It can act as a check on your flawed assumptions, a motivator to work harder or a prod to reach out to mentors and allies for advice. Secure a “consulting” gig.

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Top 10 Best Financial Resources for Women

Bonnie Low Kramen

Plus, life isn’t cheap, with planned and unplanned expenses, some days it may feel like your household finances are going downhill fast. Going back to school can be a great, yet expensive, option to get where you want to be. This is especially important as women, in particular, face gender-based challenges regarding retirement.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

Hochwarter over the phone. And due to outsourcing, Boomers not retiring, and Gen Yers being told (by older generations mind you) to get degrees in their "passion" or that "any degree" is a path to success.you end up with a lot of overworked, underpaid 20somethings. I would love to see it myself.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It is known that age only plays a factor because the more years you have worked for a company the more expensive an employee is because of their salary, overtime, and other perks/benefits that are considered in the overall compensation package (401k matching, retirement, etc). So why forego a full time job for a 2 year trial?

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