Tag: poverty

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Education is the fastest ticket to a higher income, more opportunities, and a better quality of life. But four-year college is often a tough road for the pioneering first in their families to attend. They have at least two big disadvantages – apart from the well-known financial one.  Unlike the teenagers of the highly educated…

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Seven years ago this month, this personal finance and retirement blog debuted. How things have changed. For one thing, back in 2011, a lot more people were reading blogs and newspapers on their clunky desktop computers. In recognition of the now-ubiquitous smart phone – more accurately, a computer that happens to have a phone –…