You want your kids to have a healthy financial life, yet knowing how to help make that happen may leave you stumped. It may be especially hard if you have your own money struggles. Yet teaching them as early as possible can make a difference. “There’s a lot of misinformation out there that they will
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Food is served at an outdoor restaurant in New York, August 3, 2021. Caitlin Ochs | Reuters As the Delta variant has wound its way through the U.S., signs show it is also hitting the wallets of some Americans. A new report from Morning Consult finds that the Delta variant is spurring pay or income
Sac C Wat’hn Buy Thna Thwi Phl / EyeEm | EyeEm | Getty Images One of the biggest unknowns for retirees may be whether they’ll eventually need long-term care — that is, help with daily living activities — and to what degree. Many people may end up requiring little care if they need any at
Billionaire Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and chairman of Palantir Technologies, during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Nov. 18, 2019. Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg via Getty Images Billionaire Peter Thiel and others with huge retirement account balances are in lawmakers’ crosshairs. House Democrats unveiled a tax package on Monday that would force distributions from one’s nest
@canada_by_alexis | iStock | Getty Images Half of people who haven’t yet purchased a home point to their student debt as a reason for the delay. That’s the finding from a new report by the National Association of Realtors, which partnered with Morning Consult to conduct an online poll in June of 1,995 student loan
U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., questions IRS Commissioner Charles P. Rettig at a June 8, 2021 Senate Finance Committee hearing. Tom Williams | Pool | Reuters Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., has floated a new levy on exchange-traded funds to help pay for the Democrats’ $3.5 trillion budget package. Exchange-traded
Mint Images – Tim Robbins As Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill work to bring their new reconciliation bill across the finish line, a proposal to keep the expanded child tax credit could be changed. A more generous child tax credit was authorized earlier this year by President Joe Biden and Congress to help give families
Halfpoint | iStock | Getty Images Legislation moving through Congress would make 12 weeks of paid family and sick leave available to most workers, and remove the U.S. from the small list of countries that are currently without such a policy. The exact details of the plan could still change, but experts say the historic
Sturti | Getty Images Women are more worried than men when it comes to saving enough for retirement. The coronavirus pandemic hasn’t helped. Some 60% of women said they were concerned they wouldn’t be able to achieve a financially secure retirement, according to a February 2021 survey from the National Institute on Retirement Security. That’s
Unofficially known as “Big Sky Country,” Montana attracted more vaccinated than unvaccinated Americans last month. Mike Kemp | In Pictures Ltd. | Corbis Historical | Getty Images Lawmakers on Capitol Hill may pass a measure to curb abuses by taxpayers using a particular tax deduction for land preservation. The bill, named the Charitable Conservation Easement
Representative Tom Suozzi, a Democrat from New York, speaks during a news conference announcing the State and Local Taxes (SALT) Caucus outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, April 15, 2021. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images House Democrats have said they will pursue “meaningful” change to the $10,000 cap on the
People wait in line at a food distribution site in the South Bronx on March 10, 2021 in New York. Spencer Platt | Getty Images News | Getty Images Poverty declined in 2020 by one measure following large amounts of federal aid enacted due to the coronavirus pandemic, including stimulus checks and enhanced unemployment benefits.