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How COVID-19 has Impacted College Students
The COVID-19 pandemic has served up unprecedented challenges for every segment of the population. Essential workers must protect themselves daily from contracting the coronavirus. With school held remotely across the country, working parents must figure out how they’ll also keep their jobs. And millions have lost their jobs or face extended furloughs. COVID-19 has impacted […]
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How Does Your Body React to Financial Danger?
We are fully integrated, multi-dimensional beings and everything related to us, affects us. It’s virtually impossible to separate our thoughts and actions from our bodies. If you lay down to sleep, your whole body follows; your ears and feet don’t rest while your knees and elbows stay up. When you eat, it’s not just your […]
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Credit During Covid-19
With all the daily details we have to pay attention to, we really don’t need one more thing to keep track of, but have you thought about your credit during Covid-19? I know—it’s been five months since the initial sheltering in place order and we’re still in the middle of a pandemic that seems never-ending—but […]
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Rising Grocery Costs: How to Save Money
Have you noticed rising grocery costs when you shop for food lately? We may finally be able to find chicken and eggs at the grocery store after initial shortages when COVID-19 began, but prices for the items we need have been going up during the pandemic. A June report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor […]
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6 Tips to Address Financial Stress
Americans are increasingly stressed, and a primary cause of that stress is likely no surprise to many of us. A 2018 survey by Northwestern Mutual found that financial stress was the primary source of stress for 44% of those surveyed. And with all of the turmoil of 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s likely that those […]
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Myths About Wealth That Keep Us From Managing Money Better
Hammers, shoes and sandwiches all serve a purpose and to see good results you have to use each item appropriately. You can use a shoe to hammer nails but the results may be mixed. You can eat your shoe but it won’t taste good or be as nourishing as a sandwich. Not one of these […]
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The Impact of Working, Learning From Home on Family Finances
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned just about every aspect of our lives upside down — starting with our day-to-day work and school obligations, and for many, our family finances. Kids and employees across the country were sent home in March to limit the spread of the coronavirus. Since then, children have learned virtually — via […]
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Tips for Combining Finances Before You Say I Do
You’ve done the really hard part and found someone special to spend the rest of your life with. Congratulations! Now, let’s set aside the wedding planning and honeymoon dreaming for a bit and talk about combining finances. Merging bank accounts and financial lives isn’t exactly pillow talk, of course, but it’s a necessary discussion for […]
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How Your Emotions Impact Spending
We know that our money is an extension of us. It doesn’t float around independently, saving itself, is spending itself or giving itself away. Our attitudes and priorities can be found in our money. Our emotions impact spending. One financial expert says that he can tell the kind of person he’s dealing with by looking […]