Family & Lifestyle

New free way to protect your child's identity

Protecting your child's identity is about to get a whole lot easier and cheaper thanks to a new free service in the marketplace. Child identity theft is one of the worst forms of identity theft because it often goes unchecked and unnoticed for years. You might not have any idea ...

• 2:35 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, 2012

How do you teach your kids about money?

How do you teach your kids about money? If you don't do it, one thing is certain: They'll learn their lesson in the school of hard knocks and you don't want that. As a parent, there is so much you can do in this arena, yet a recent T. Rowe ...

• 2:49 p.m. Friday, May 4, 2012
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Save money everytime you blow your nose

Did you know that you have an opportunity to save money every time you sneeze or get a runny nose? Sometimes you've got to blow your nose and there's no tissue so you grab toilet paper. For me, that's not the first choice. But DailyFinance.com says I've got to rethink ...

• 1:34 p.m. Monday, April 23, 2012
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Simple rules for student loan borrowing

Many families have just had college acceptance letters show up. Then the questions come, "How are we going to pay the tuition?" In many families, there's not dough saved over the last five years after a lot of Americans had hours cut or lost their jobs outright. That creates a ...

• 1:25 p.m. Friday, April 20, 2012
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Charter school enrollment is booming

Enrollment at charter schools is booming in one of the largest consolidated school districts in the nation. I've long loved the idea of charter schools as an alternative way to provide your kids a better public education. Parents are starting to see charter schools as tuition-free private schools. Now The ...

• 2:43 p.m. Thursday, April 19, 2012

Should you spend your money on BPA-free plastics?

Some three years ago, the big worry of the moment was that BPA in plastics was being linked to possible cancer and danger to your nervous system. Scientists cited studies where BPA was carcinogenic to lab rats, leading them to push to ban the chemical in our bottles. Now the ...

• 1:28 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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Student loan debt now burdening the elderly

Student loans have moved from burdening the young to plaguing the old. Student loan debt is a pox on the American pocketbook. This terrible national burden now exceeds credit card debt in the U.S. and is growing exponentially. Tuition costs have been rising at roughly three times the rate of ...

• 1:27 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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Prices of sports tickets being driven down

High definition flatscreen TVs are driving down the price of live sports tickets in an unexpected way. For the first time in decades, the cost of a Major League Baseball ticket has not increased in price. In fact, ticket prices have gone down in a lot of cities. At a ...

• 1:25 p.m. Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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A special word to women investors...

Men and women are not created equal when it comes to saving for retirement. If you're a female investor, Clark has some special advice for you.

• 12:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Clark's tips for handling money in a relationship

Do opposites attract, or do you look for the same kind of person when it comes to how you handle money? My wife and I are what I call the MasterCard logo couple. When we met 18 years ago, we were opposites with how we approached money. Over time, we ...

• 1:43 p.m. Monday, April 9, 2012
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