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Personal Finance for Labor
Five Tax Moves
Is your tax deferred retirement plan tax efficient?
The Unkindest Cut
If you are among the wealthy, your only reaction to the term tax cuts would be, for lack of a better word, hooray!
Repairing Your Credit
Six Habits of Good Credit
Five Keys to Understanding
Your Credit Score
Four Steps to
Repairing Credit
You are a mutual fund investor. So why should you worry about Hedge Funds?
Worried about Social Security? So are we
Consumer Alert A new law entitles you to free credit report. But is it really free?
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Here at the BlueCollarDollar we work diligently to provide you with up-to-date information you can use everyday. We cover everything from the economics of family to plight of the American worker to the right way to save for your future. We look at all of the forces that affect your paycheck, your savings, your ability to invest, and most importantly, your approach to retirement planning. Since 1998, we have worked hard at providing you with that understanding of money using a common sense approach.
With summer well upon most parts of the country, it might be a good time to review those insurance policies that have gone mostly ignored for most of the year. Although these policies hardly make the list for top beach reading, a review of how you have planned for a disaster might just give some added peace of mind.
Your Summer Home Insurance Review
Your Summer Life Insurance Review
How are those vacation plans coming? Here are five ways to keep from breaking this year's budget.
Who needs bonds? CDs are back and paying some healthy returns.
In many
cases, marriages, even those that come together after long courtships or
even extended periods of cohabitation are often fraught with potential financial pitfalls. Here's an easy way to fix those issues.
A lot of us dream of the lottery. But how many of us are prepared for other kinds of sudden windfalls?
Inheritances, Windfalls, and Money from Heaven:
A Look at Sudden Wealth
So there you are, ready to join your employers 401(k) plan or start an IRA. But you stop cold. So many choices; so much to consider. If you are like many folks, you don't go any further. But there is help. Consider your Financial ABCs - Age, Balance, and Continuity.
The BlueMoney Report (commentary)
We offer frequent financial commentary that often delves into the heart of many of the decisions made in Washington. These articles seek to understand how these decisions affect not only investors but the working family as well.
The full article.
The average worker needs to do six things. They must begin to rein in those runaway spending habits, rethink their refinanced and/or long term
mortgage obligations, and begin to increase personal retirement savings.
Have you seen how well our time of life portfolios have done?
Updated monthly
Please read the following list for manufacturers whose products are made in this country by workers who have demanded dignity in the workplace.
Do you have a plan in place for a financial disaster? Three steps to protect you from divorce, fire and natural disasters.
A Small Business Special How to be a big a business thinker on a small business budget
More than one person has asked this question over the years. At what point
do I hire out?
Chapter 7 allows for a fresh start. A new law passed by Congress and signed by the President holds spendthrifts who abuse the system accountable for their debts.
Women and finance - Women have made great strides in not only earning better wages, many still facing an uncertain financial future. Are you ready?
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News You Can Use
Do you have a short term savings goal such as a house or your child's college. Here are some suggestions on how to get there.
Do you have a will?
How will your survivors invest their inheritance?
My late father was fond of saying, "you knew you were making money if you were paying taxes". Do you know your tax rate? The odds are stacked against a pristine credit report. How does yours stack up?
On the Pension front, the average employee is not as prepared for the future as one would imagine.
And for a humorous look at retirement. Should you plan on retiring at the Hilton?
Conservative investing as a winning strategy?
It's true!
Looking for a conservative place for your money? We have prepared a look at the top four places in money markets, CDs, and REIT funds.
The High Cost of Not Paying Attention
Jeanine Garofalo had a line in a quirky little movie called "The Independent" that could easily be have explained what is about to happen to this so-called economic recovery.
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What the Jobs Report means
What will the next four years hold for Americans as Mr. Bush puts his politcal capital to work? Will the changes be good, bad, or just a smoke and mirrors shift with middle American wage earners footing the bill?
A change in the American course
But what about the US strategic reserves that have been steadily increasing under the current administration?
Forget they exist. That oil would have little if any effect on the
price at the pumps.
Admittedly, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 needed to be updated to accommodate a world that is wholly different than the one the bill was written for so many decades ago.
Computers have entered the mix as well as the increasingly large amount of workers involved in service industries such as finance. But the law as it stood was still a fully functioning umbrella for workers.
There is something amiss in your pension plan. Here are two brief updates on how this will affect you. And believe me, it will.
Part One | Part Two | Part Three
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The State of Work in America.
Who Should Pay
There are reports stating that the number of uninsured citizens in this country has climbed to 43 million, of those, 12 million are children.
While this is unquestionably a national crisis, it will not be solved at the bargaining table.
Job creation is on everyone's minds these days. We take three different looks at what is being said about the state of work in America.
Part One: The economy cannot fully recover without job creation. Job creation cannot come from protectionism, a belief that is growing in popularity.
Part Two: The burden of local taxes, health and welfare, and the wages that won't increase all play a roll in the recovery that won't fully develop.
Part Three: Unfortunately, many businesses need to forecast growth beyond the upcoming quarter. Many are unwilling to do that understanding the long-term destructive nature of current policies.
Understanding Pensions
"The good news is that more and more Americans are starting to save for retirement," Steve Judge said in a press release issued on March 14th. Mr. Judge is the Securities Industry Association's senior vice president, government affairs. He quickly added that "the bad news is that they aren't accumulating as much as they will need to retire comfortably."
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