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5 Ways The New Stimulus Bill May Help Your Small Business
If your small business has been struggling because of the Covid-19 pandemic, here are some important ways this new relief package may help.© Jeff - Adobe StockBy Gerri DetweilerThe second stimulus bill, the Economic Aid to Hard-Hit Small Businesses, Nonprofits, and Venues Act, has been passed by Congress and signed int
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How Much Savings Do You Actually Need to Feel Financially Secure? Start With These 3 Benchmarks
For many households, the biggest source of money stress isn't low savings. It's uncertainty.
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3 Warning Signs That You Have Too Much Credit Card Debt
Credit card interest rates can wreak havoc with your finances. How can you tell if you've taken on too much debt? Read on to find out about the warning signs and what you can do to keep your debt from growing
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8 Steps To Take If You Lose Your Job Because Of Coronavirus
These are crazy times that we are living in as the current epidemic is shaking the world. We’ve now seen jobless claims top 30 million over the last six weeks – many of them due to the novel coronavirus. In case you’re keeping track, that’s more layoffs than jobs created since the Great Recession. Perhaps you’re newly
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Down Market? It’s Roth Time!
The recent chaos in the market, coupled with the most significant sell-off since 1987, has at least one silver lining: if you intend to invest you can invest in a Roth vehicle and recoup gains potentially tax-free. Roth IRAs, and their bigger sister, the Roth 401(k), provide the opportunity for savers to develop invest
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Counteracting Capital Gains with Tax-Loss Harvesting
Tax-loss harvesting means taking capital losses (selling securities for less than what you initially paid for them) to offset any capital gains you
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The Average American Has This Much Debt. How Does Yours Compare?
Here's how the number breaks down and what you can do to get ahead.
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Q&A: How to Protect Yourself from Online Scams
Elie Hawa thinks about phishing scams every day. As an Information Security Operations Engineer at First Midwest, his job is to keep the bank safe from cyber attacks and other online scams. Much of his work involves helping his colleagues avoid scams – any system is only as strong as its weakest link. We asked Elie how
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School’s Out for Summer … But Tuition Is Back in the Fall
I can only imagine the enthusiasm of students and teachers who will finally able to be back in a classroom and learning in person as schools and campuses around the country start coming back to life this fall.
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The Kid Roth: Build Your Child A Tax-Free Nest Egg And Teach Savings Over Spending
Roth IRAs are a great option for retirement savings and will be a much more popular way to save now that the SECURE Act has been signed into law. The SECURE Act will generally make the nonspouse beneficiaries of taxable IRAs take, and pay taxes on, distributions over ten years, versus the current rule allowing them to