Planning and Paying for college is a major undertaking for most families. I believe strongly that further education is important to our success as individuals and as a society. Further education does not necessarily mean a 4 year bachelors degree for a desk job. Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame …
As long as an individual has earnings, he or she can open a Roth IRA and invest up to $5500 per year (or their total gross income, whichever is less). It does not matter where the money being invested comes from. Some parents do a matching system where they will …
Yesterday I was having a conversation with some of the guys I work with (or was it today, Night shift gets me all turned around.) and we started talking about personal finance education in schools. When I attended High School we had block scheduling, with 4 courses a day for …
The first step to getting your finances in order is to simply get organized. Knowing, in detail how much money you have, where it is, how much you owe and who to, and what your expenses are goes a long way. Once all of this information is together, goals can …