A tax refund is to many Americans what a bonus is to Wall Street bankers—it's the largest lump sum the average household sees all year.
So what to do with it?
The average refund is $2,700, and for two-thirds of taxpayers, that's more than a month's [...]
Tax Refund: What Are You Doing With Yours?
Posted by howtobe1st on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
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One Quarter of US Has More Card Debt Than Savings
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Rumors of the spendthrift American consumer may be slightly exaggerated. Bankrate's 2013 February Financial Security Index found that a majority of consumers — by a narrow margin — say they have more savings than credit card debt.
For more than half [...]
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SAM; Smart About Money
Posted by howtobe1st on Saturday, January 1, 2011
Smart About Money or SAM, is a program of the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) a nonprofitnational foundation dedicated to inspiring empowered financial decision making for individuals and families through [...]
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