Tax season 2016 is in full swing. This means bookkeepers and accountants all across the country are burning the midnight oil to try and keep up with the avalanche of last minute tax returns from clients. The IRS received more than 150 million tax returns in 2015, and of that number, over 108 million received […]
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Top 5 Money Wasters
Data on income and wealth all across the globe make it clear the rich continue to get richer, the middle class is shrinking, and the poor continue to get poorer. As a consequence, more family breadwinners than ever are struggling to make ends meet, as the costs of health care, education, rent and food continue […]
Read More...Your Kids: Making Sure They’re Prepared for Financial Success
While it’s always important to give kids time to just be kids, children growing up today face a much steeper learning curve than either baby boomers or millennials. In fact, child development experts now say that increasing expectations in school and in the workplace mean that kids need to start internalizing basic emotional, cultural and […]
Read More...What You Don’t Know About Your 401(k)
More than 500,000 American employers offer 401(k) retirement plans to their employees, and over 90 million American workers are enrolled in these plans. As of 2015, around 52 million of this number were active, contributing participants in 401(k) plans. While it’s usually easy to sign up for your company’s 401(k) plan (and many firms today […]
Read More...Life Insurance: How to Make Sure You’re Getting the Coverage You Need
If the only certainties in life are death and taxes, life insurance makes a difference when these two inevitabilities conjunct. Life insurance provides for your loved ones after your death, and if the beneficiary is your spouse or a life insurance trust, the proceeds are not taxed as part of your estate. Who Needs Life […]
Read More...Best Trades To Know
We all focus on self-sufficiency and self-reliance to ensure survival, especially in the event of a disaster. These trade skills we are going over will be both valuable to your home and trade-able to your neighbors. Learn one (or more) of these trades and you’ll be set. Woodworking When we can’t all run out to […]
Read More...A Guide to Bartering
With homesteading, you acquire skills that make you self-sufficient and ready for almost any situation. You learn how to grow your own food and preserve them. But have you ever considered what might happen in case of a catastrophic event? Life as we know it may change and all your homesteading skills may be tested. […]
Read More...Who is Your American Hero?
It’s time to submit nominations for FPA’s American Hero Award! Are YOU the Next American Hero? Or perhaps you know someone who is. It could be a friend, a teacher, a neighbor, a parent… Nominate them for the 2015 FPA American Hero Award! We’re looking for a model American citizen, someone who exemplifies patriotism; who has a heart of gold […]
Read More...Tame Tax Year 2014
A guide to getting your taxes done Tax time is here again, more complicated than years before due to mandated health insurance and more difficult due to cuts in free tax filing assistance. What is a tax filer to do? Start early! Track all your paperwork by corralling it in a […]
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