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  • What People Like You Are Doing Right!
    Sometimes it helps to know there are people just like you, facing the same financial issues you're facing. Look at a few examples to see what simple steps they're taking now to secure their financial future.. Sometimes it helps to know there are people just like you, facing the same
  • I don't really need to worry about saving and investing enough now for my retirement. If it isn't enough, I'll just have to keep working no matter how old I am.
    Regardless of whether you have saved enough money to retire, it is very likely that at some point in your life you simply either will not be able to work or there will be no work opportunities. Yes, people are working at jobs later into life, delaying retirement or gradually working their way into f
  • Financial Topics in Difficult Times
    When Debt Is Overwhelming You: Difficult Financial Decisions for Difficult Times Today a rapidly increasing number of people find themselves having to stretch their incomes and take on larger amounts of debt to afford everyday expenses and fixed expenses like affordable housing and health insurance.
  • Welcome to Tomorrow's Money
    Wouldn't it be nice to look forward to the future confident about your finances? The truth is that most women aren’t. In fact, three-quarters of all American women are worried about their financial future but not sure about what to do about it.. ok forward to the future confident about your fina
  • No More Excuses
    If you're feeling guilty or panicked for not already having a personal financial plan in place, you're in good company. Would it help you to know that most people who haven't begun saving and investing for their future have the same excuses for not doing so? This section is designed to help you face
  • Important Steps at Each Stage of Your Life
    Each stage of life presents different opportunities and challenges. For example, single adults just starting out in the workforce have the gift of time to begin planning for their future, but need to begin developing wise financial habits at the start to reach them.. Each stage of life presen
  • Getting Married
    Scenario: Jennifer and Kevin are a newly engaged couple, living in Colorado, beginning to plan their wedding. Jennifer is a 25-year-old teacher earning 28,000 a year.. Scenario: Jennifer and Kevin are a newly engaged couple, living in Colorado, beginning to plan their wedding. Jennifer is a 2
  • Housing Issues and Concerns
    For both young families and senior adults the cost of maintaining a home – including mortgage or rent, property tax, insurance, home maintenance, renovations, utilities and more – can become too expensive given existing resources. Before you move in together, be aware that there may be local zoning
  • Tag-Team Parent-Led Child Care
    Millions of families with two working parents face regularly the same stresses and choices in arranging and paying for child care that Andy and Christine face. They have to make tradeoffs between their work schedules and child care availability, and they are worried about the mounting cost of qualit
  • The Financial Side of Homeownership
    Buying a home is the single largest financial commitment that most people ever make. By taking some time to think about and plan how you will maintain your investment and stay current on your mortgage, you can create some good financial habits at the outset of homeownership that will pay off for yea
  • What to Do When the Deployment is Extended
    Imagine learning that your spouse has 24 hours to report for duty and be deployed for combat. Now imagine that the day before the scheduled homecoming, you are notified that he/she won't be coming home for another 12-15 months.. Imagine learning that your spouse has 24 hours to report for duty and be de
  • Comparing Credit Card Offers
    IT'S NO SUPRISE that so many people still carry credit cards with annual percentage rates (APRs) of 13% or higher. After all, there's a whole industry of card issuers out there devoted to using hidden fees and interest rate gymnastics to gouge you as best they can..
  • Preserving the Value of Your Home and Community When the Housing Market Changes
    With the increased rate of home foreclosures nationwide, many homeowners, and home sellers, are facing tough questions about how to maintain as much of their home's value as possible, how to sell a home in a slowing real estate market, and how to ensure that their community remains a desirable place
  • Making Home Improvements
    Whether you have purchased a real “fixer-upper” or you are considering modest “cosmetic” changes, making home improvements can be a way to make your home better fit your family, lifestyle and/or financial goals when re-selling. Deciding on Improvements and Setting Your Budget Making home improvement
  • If a Servicemember Becomes Disabled
    It is a difficult reality, but servicemembers can become disabled during their military service. It can be a physically and emotionally difficult time for the servicemember and his or her family.. It is a difficult reality, but servicemembers can become disabled during their military service. It
  • What's New This Month
    July '09 : IOUs Issued by the State of California Strapped for cash, the state of California has started issuing more than 3 billion in IOUs to businesses, individual tax payers and county governments to whom it owes money. California state government officials have indicated that the IOUs – which
  • Rising Interest Rates and the Mortgage Crunch and What It May Mean to You
    The initial housing boom began in early 2002 - 2003. Interest rates were falling to all-time lows.. The initial housing boom began in early 2002 - 2003. Interest rates were falling to all-time lows. A surge of homebuyers eager to take advantage of the low interest rates on mortgages began pushing ho
  • Dealing with Deployment
    Deployment is a stressful time for every member of the family. By taking time to talk together as a family, and separately as a couple, you can better manage both the emotional and logistical aspects of being apart from your servicemember.. Deployment is a stressful time for every member of