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Is Early Retirement Actually Worth The Cost?

How Credit Scores Rule — & Ruin — Our Lives

How 5 Young People Actually Make Money In The Stock Market

Why Everyone Is Talking About GameStop Stocks — Or Is It Stonks?

Right now, Wall Street is in chaos — and it’s all thanks to Reddit and GameStop, a video game retailer that people visited in the early 2000s and f

The Literal Pain Of Working From Home

Complaining about work is normal. In fact, it’s an utterly ordinary thing to do even if you generally enjoy your job. We might groan about a tough pr

Goodbye To Office Holiday Parties — We’ll Miss You (Sort Of)

Most years, the company holiday party is a chance to do everything from witness your boss getting a little too drunk and making a heartfelt, misty-eyed spe

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Companies Are Now Turning Birthdays Into Work Holidays. Is This A...

People celebrate their birthdays in various idiosyncratic ways, but there are some near-universal traditions: having cake, blowing out candles and making a

‘Tis The Season To Argue During Family Gatherings — But This Year...

Welcome to Taking Stock, a space where we can take a deep breath and try to figure out what the COVID-19 economy really means for our finances. Every month

COVID-19 Doom-Shopping Is Real: “I Get Anxiety About Not Buying T...

Welcome to Taking Stock, a space where we can take a deep breath and try to figure out what the COVID-19 economy really means for our finances. Every month

Almost 20,000 Amazon Workers Have Had COVID-19 Since March

This past Thursday, during possibly one of the most hectic news weeks of the year, Amazon published a blog post announcing their dedication to more compreh

WFH: JPMorgan CEO Says Young Employees Working From Home Slack Off

There’s no COVID-19 vaccine yet, but some CEOs seem to be itching to have employees within their sights again. According to Bloomberg, in a recent meetin

How To Help Someone Financially Without Being Rude (Or Ruining Th...

Helping someone out financially can be hard. Not just because your own budget may be tight, but because money is such an emotionally charged subject. Bring

You Still Need A Holiday. Yes, Even Now.

Remember the early days of the coronavirus, when we earnestly thought that, surely, this would all blow over in a couple of weeks? Since then, we’ve take

Google Employees Will Work From Home Until At Least Next Summer

It’s been a subdued summer for most of us, with none of the usual vacation plans and get-togethers. But that doesn’t mean we can’t be making plans fo

Why Keeping Politics Outside Of Work Is Outdated

Most career experts would advise against talking about politics at work. The thinking is that, at best, you risk being labeled “unprofessional,” and, a

One-Third Of Jobs Lost During Coronavirus May Never Come Back

Since non-essential businesses closed due to COVID-19 and unemployment claims skyrocketed (more than 2.1 million people have filed since mid-March in the U

How To Negotiate Your Bills During COVID-19

the exact terms of your bills aren’t written in stone: they can be negotiated.

How To Create A Budget For Anti-Racist Activism

It’s time to get more strategic about our personal budgets. Unemployment is high and we’re in a recession as a result of COVID-19. While every dollar i

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Coronavirus Is Already Impacting The Hiring Gap For Millennial Women

In the UK, unemployment increased from 500,000 to 1.35 million in the first three months of the year. It’s unclear how long the devastating economic effe

Facebook Employees Staged A Virtual Walkout Today

Today, dozens of Facebook employees are participating in a virtual walkout protesting the company’s inaction toward President Trump’s recent social med

Rent Is Due. What If You Can’t Pay?

Affordable housing is scarce in the UK. Almost half of us spend more than 30% of our income on rent alone. For millennials, it’s about a third of the inc

How To Nail Your Virtual Job Interview

If you’re one of the millions that has lost their job in the months since the COVID-19 pandemic became a national crisis, you may now be facing a postmod

“I’m Taking It Minute By Minute” Real Women On ...

Before a global pandemic locked down states across the nation, working from home was a coveted privilege: you could have a little WFH, as a treat. You look

“A Lot Of Responses Seem More Aggressive”: How To Peacefully Solv...

The internet is great for a lot of things: an endless supply of streaming TV shows and movies, memes and gallows humour as a salve for the bleakness of rea

8 Ideas To Try If You’re Looking To Make Some Extra Money O...

Thanks to COVID-19, financial insecurity is an unfortunate reality for many of us right now. In the U.K, unemployment rates have surged to 1.3 million in t

Do You Have To Return To Work If You Feel Unsafe?

With many stay-at-home orders ending in May in the US, states are slowly reopening non-essential businesses like gyms, hair salons, and even bars and resta

I’m A Self-Employed Cleaner & I Lost Two Sources Of Income ...

It’s been almost two months since businesses across the country started shutting down. For some, that’s meant close to two months of little to no incom

What Is A Contact Tracer & How Can You Become One?

On 30th April, South Korea reported no new domestic cases of COVID-19. It was a major milestone for a country that, in late February, saw almost 1,000 new

Dear Class of 2020 — The Class of 2008 Offers Their Sympathy & Ad...

It’s A Hard Time To Be Job Hunting, But Here’s How Yo...

Today, the US Department of Labor released data showing that over 6.6 million people filed for unemployment insurance in the week ending on 28th March. Tha

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