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Laid-Off or Let Go? Here Are 7 Immediate Steps for Your Career, Finances and Personal Growth

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Create a budget We updated our budget in the Every Dollar app to reflect only our necessary expenses and cancelled our subscriptions and memberships to various services. If you desperately need money, Determine if a short-term personal loan is more cost efficient than taking money from retirement.

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The wrong lesson to take from Trump’s gutting of Medicaid

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Under Ronald Reagan, Congress cut Social Security benefits substantially by raising the retirement age. For one thing, Republicans have in fact cut some universal programs quite a bit over the past half century. It remains true that America’s elder benefits have held up remarkably well against cuts, given their ballooning costs.

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Trump cut the National Weather Service. Did that impact Texas flood warnings?

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Both of those positions were opened up because people took early retirement under the Trump administration’s program to try to get people to reduce the size of the federal government. The people who are near retirement age are taking these packages and are leaving. The National Weather Service lost about 600 people.

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8 Smart Ways to Save on Your Summer Business Travel (and Have Fun, Too!)

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Business travel during summer doesnt have to mean stretching your budget to the breaking point. Score big on hotels with members-only platforms Hotel costs tend to eat up a large part of any travel budget, especially during summer. Example : Traveling to a city with cultural sites? Thats why I created Tonia in Vegas.

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The lie at the heart of Trump’s entire economic agenda

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To take just one example, the more American workers needed to sate our economy’s demand for minerals, the fewer available to meet its need for childcare, pushing the price of such care upward. This would generate shortages and inflation, at least in the near term. million were unemployed due to caregiving responsibilities.

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The Budget Roller Coaster

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Freelancers face irregular income, a lack of employer-supported benefits, such as a retirement plan and health insurance, and shouldering the full federal income tax burden. All these factors can make budgeting challenging because freelancers sometimes don’t know how much they’ll earn in a certain time frame.

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Empower’s Budget App Will Teach You All About Smart Money Management

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The Empower budget app offers many features, including the ability to track your cash flow, see your net worth at a glance and more. These tools help you stick to your budget, manage investments and achieve your financial goals. What Are The Key Features Of Empower’s Budget App? The app takes a broader approach.

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