Some of us hoard cash while paying 18 percent interest on a credit card balance. Others blow through a tax refund as if it were free money when it’s actually a return of our own hard-earned dollars.
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Unpaid Bills, Debt Burdens: Are You Afraid to Look at Your Finances?
Posted on 10 July 2017.
Not wanting to confront unpaid bills is a perfectly understandable, if unfortunate, reaction to a bad financial situation.
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How to get and maintain your financial health
Posted on 16 January 2017.
Some numbers matter more than others. How much you make is important, for example, but your financial health depends far more on how much you keep.
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Mass. home health workers win wage hike to $15 an hour
Posted on 21 June 2015.
More than 35,000 personal care attendants in Massachusetts have won the right to a $15-an-hour starting wage, the first state-level victory in a nationwide campaign to raise pay for low-wage workers to $15 an hour. The agreement, reached after five months of negotiations between the Baker administration and Service Employees International Union Local 1199 that […]
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Financial Literacy Quiz: Test your money IQ
Posted on 19 March 2015.
Even the most financially savvy individuals encounter and sometimes let personal finance myths influence how they manage their money. Some of these misconceptions are rooted in faulty information right from the start.
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Personal ‘Obamacare’ accounts debut
Posted on 07 August 2013.
By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar WASHINGTON — You can now open your own personal “Obamacare” account — but you’ll have to wait awhile before you can actually use it to pick a health insurance plan. Just eight weeks before the Oct. 1 launch of open enrollment under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law, administration officials announced […]
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