Financial

Surviving Unemployment

July 6, 2009

You hear the statistics every week in the news. You didn’t think it would happen to you, but now you are one of the millions of unemployed Americans. While it’s easy to become upset and depressed by being laid off, you can’t really afford to lay around waiting for a new job to come knocking. [...]

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Planning for Unemployment While You Are Employed

June 29, 2009

With the recession still in effect, perhaps no statistic is as closely watched as unemployment. It seems everyone has a friend or family member who has been laid off and can’t find work. So while you are happy you have a job and prefer not to think about the dreadful idea of being unemployed, this [...]

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Getting In & Paying for College – The Reality

May 25, 2009

 This is from my segment on Atlanta & Company on May 25, 2009. It’s that time of year again. Colleges and universities are filled with students taking in the sites. Yes, high school students and their parents are taking college tours across the country. They are checking out classrooms and dorms and wondering if this [...]

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Sending Kids to College Without Your Entire Wallet

May 18, 2009

 This is from my segment on Atlanta & Company on May 18, 2009. It’s one of the proudest moments in any parent’s life—dropping off your child at college. Ah, what a sense of accomplishment. But get ready to drop off your bank account at college too. Going to college can be expensive and we’re not [...]

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Free Life Insurance for Working Parents

September 19, 2008

Mass Mutual Life Insurance is offering free life insurance policies for working parents. This special program, called LifeBridge, entitles each family to a $50,000 life insurance policy to cover the children in case of parents’ death. Mass Mutual will pay the premiums on the policy. They company is planning on giving away $1 billion in life insurance [...]

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Finding a Job – the Proactive Way

July 30, 2008

A friend of mine recently told me she was laid off. She seemed surprised but I wasn’t. Not that she was a bad employee, but because she worked for a home products company. With the dramatic drop in home sales and the shrinking of the credit markets providing home equity loans, it was just a [...]

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Mortgage Crisis Leading Banks in New Direction

July 3, 2008

Sitting on an airplane you find out the person next two you paid twice as much for their seat and the person behind paid 20% less than you. This variable pricing for the same service is nothing new in the airline industry or the travel industry as whole for that matter. However this variable pricing called [...]

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The Value of an Accountant?

February 22, 2008

I wish I could take advantage of the tax software deals I mentioned, especially since we are State Farm customers. However, our taxes are a little complicated with both my husband and I owning small businesses. It’s late February now and I am in the midst of possible accountant change. I can’t help it. I [...]

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