A majority of Americans are renting on the cheap — at least, compared to what they’d be paying if they bought a home.
In more than half (59%) of housing markets nationwide — 442 of 755 U.S. counties — renting...
As a parent, it's natural to want to be there for your children -- even once they're grown and have families of their own. But while it's one thing to offer your adult kids emotional support, it's another thing to offer them...
There are billions of reasons to do this job.
Many of today’s self-made billionaires and multimillionaires held a sales job, or jobs, when they were younger — a fact they consider crucial to their current success, according to research...
Millions of seniors depend on Social Security to pay the bills in retirement. But that dependence might be reaching an unhealthy extreme. In fact, 66% of seniors believe that Social Security will be their primary source of income over the course of their retirement,...
Stashing some cash in savings account used to be the monetary equivalent of stuffing money in a mattress. Those days are over.
In 2018, high-yielding savings accounts outperformed the stock market for the first time in over a decade.
Though many of us aren't tax-focused this early on in the year, it never hurts to get educated about all things filing-related. Unfortunately, a large number of Americans are failing in that regard, or so found a recent GOBankingRates survey. Here are three...
Your child may be expecting a raise soon.
Children between the ages of 4 and 14 years old got an average of $471 a year or $9.06 per week in allowance in 2018, up 3.7% on the year before,...
Let’s be honest: New Year’s resolutions often don’t work. The main reasons resolutions are abandoned is because they’re overly complicated or people don’t see tangible results when they hope to. This goes for financial resolutions, too. Fidelity Investments’ annual New Year Financial...
This is the time of year when resolutions are made and broken. And topping the list of resolutions for many of us is figuring out our finances.
“They look at where they are, they realize that often there’s a...
Squirrel away more money.
Among the one-third of Americans making 2019 financial New Year’s resolutions, 48 percent plan to save more, according to a Fidelity Investments survey. If you’re among those aspiring savers, read on for concrete ways to reach...
