Good morning! Raise your hand if you have a child in college! Keep it up there if you have remembered to claim the College Tax Credit? This is biggie; The credit is renewed annually via the American Opportunity Tax Credit via the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act. I live in Illinois and as the mother of two professional students, this is one tax credit that saved me $2500 per student per year. I know you are tired of hearing about income taxes, but if I find something that … [Read more...]
Education about Money – Important at a Young Age
March 27, 2010 By 1 Comment
When you are in grade school, all you want to do is hurry up and grow up so that you can be the boss of your own life. However, when many of these kids graduate from high school and experience life on their own for the first time in college, they realize that with all the privileges and freedoms come a lot of responsibilities. Unless these children receive decent education about how to manage their finances before they live on their own, they are almost guaranteed to run into problems that may … [Read more...]
Education – Invest in Your Future Success
March 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment
When you are young, you feel like you can’t grow up fast enough. It seems like adults have all the fun and can do anything they want to in life. They don’t have to go to school and they get to make their own decisions about what they will eat, buy, and watch on television. Then, as you started to grow up, and take on more of these privileges and responsibilities for yourself, you slowly learned that there are many hard parts to being an adult and being in charge of your own … [Read more...]
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