This post is sponsored by Lexington Law The two are often used interchangeably but there are some key differences between saving and investing. Knowing how saving and investing are different, and knowing how to successfully do both on a budget, will help reduce stress in your day to day life […]
This post is sponsored by Lexington Law Firm. Thanks to the creation of 529 College Savings Plans in the Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996, American parents have unwittingly been entered into yet another rat race. Not only are we climbing ladders to get the ‘best’ jobs and own […]
I doubt that community college, as a concept, is a divisive issue (although, it being 2015 and this being the internet, nothing would surprise me). In case it is, know that I stand defiantly in the community college corner. I love community college and believe that most every college-bound student […]
In a groundbreaking new partnership with Arizona State University, Starbucks will soon begin to offer every single employee working at least 20 hours a week a free online college education. The Starbucks free college education benefit is available the moment an employee is hired and is designed to help their […]
Our Investing In Childhood bus rolled through the midwest last week and stopped at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, where two wide-eyed girls sat and listened and read and soaked up a small sterile slice of 1950s America.
Oh how clever. The financial industry is jumping on the “day” bandwagon (see: National Pancake Day, Talk Like a Pirate, Waste An Entire Day On YouTube Day, etc.) by making today, 5/29, 529 College Savings Day. Seems like as good a day as any then to revisit my case AGAINST […]
I was a guest on a segment of HuffPost Live yesterday discussing my ideas about ways a parent/grandparent/guardian might better invest in a child than merely saving money for their college education. The 1/2-hour discussion was lively and engaging, although it too often veered away from my focus on this […]
Thanks to the relative controversialality (made-up word) of my case against college savings, I have made it onto The Huffington Post frontpage. Surely CNN, Headline News, The New York Times, and The White House aren’t far behind. You read OWTK, so you’ve read it already, but would you fancy reading […]
