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Economic Growth - Economic Growth means that economy is growing - more goods and services are being produced and consumed than they were before. The most common measurement of economic growth is the Gross Domestic Product (or GDP), which measures the total number of finished goods and services produced in an economy in a year. Read More...
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Accounting for Automatic Payments - Automatic Payments can be a huge time saver, but can also be problematic for your planning processes and account reconciliations. What cases are they appropriate? Can you think of a case where automatic payments would… Read More...
Receipts – Keeping and Tossing - If you save receipts for every purchase you make the paper will pile up quickly. Think about what types of receipts you DEFINITELY need to save, and which ones you can throw out! Read More...
Pay Yourself First - Budgeting, and trying to grow your savings, can be extremely challenging. However, there is one easy technique you can use to make sure your savings are always growing: Pay Yourself First. This is where you… Read More...
Unemployment and Other Assistance Programs - There are a variety of unemployment programs, and other assistance programs, that exist in order to help with people facing hard financial times, and low incomes. Some of these include Unemployment Insurance, SNAP Food Assistance… Read More...