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How To Teach Kids About Money (Hint: It's Not Lecturing!) - 5 Money Games for Kids
Whether the kids in your life are your own, extended family members, neighbors, or the youngsters of friends, you can be sure they're constantly learning. It's what kids do. Even when no one is lecturing, kids...
Your Retirement Account: What You Need to Know
Retirement seems a long way away when you've just started your first job. As they say, time flies, and the years will pass more quickly than you think. Setting up a retirement account earlier rather than later is...
The Credit Union: One of the Best Kept Secrets In Financial Services
Even though a third of the country deals with a credit union, it is not difficult to argue that credit unions remain one of the best-kept secrets in the financial services industry. Fortunately, the secret seems to be...
Commonly Missed Signs of Credit Fraud
Credit and identity theft -- it can happen to anybody. Statistics from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service show that around 7 percent of people over the age of 16 were victims of identity theft in 2014. About...
Credit Card Chips: What's the Big Deal?
Sometime in the summer or fall of 2015, you might have received a new credit card in the mail, even if your old card wasn't set to expire quite yet. The new card features a microchip, also called an Europay,...
Cooking on a Budget: Four Easy Tips
Food is usually a smaller part of a person's budget than items like rent. Yet, food spending can still add up. The Bureau of Labor Statistics found that in 2014, the average household spent close to $4,000 on...