The money in a Child Trust Fund is locked away until your child turns 18, when it becomes their cash. It’s estimated that between 700,000 and 1 million of these accounts are lost. If you think your child might have one, HMRC has a free tool you can use tofind out which providerth...
Elizabeth Ananat and Irwin Garfinkel describe some of earlier estimated of an expanded child tax credit in “The Potential Long-Run Impact of a Permanently Expanded Child Tax Credit.” They describe the design and potential effecs of a roughly $100 billion per year expansion of the child tax ...
Tim Sablik of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond tells the story and summarizes some economic research on the topic in “When Uncle Sam Watched Rosie’s Kids: To support women working on the homefront in World War II, the U.S. government funded a temporary nationwide child care program”...
Losing my mother set off an emotional roller coaster of its own and on top of losing her, because of a lot of not very smart decisions she made years ago, instead of inheriting the house in which I’ve lived for 24 years and a sizeable trust fund, materially I’ve inherited nothing ...
my due diligence where fantasy and science fiction are concerned. These are the contemporary genres, after all, on which modern medievalism still has perhaps its strongest grip. I admit that neither genre has ever held particular interest for me,...
The money that is given to the World Land Trust, in my estimation, has more effect on the wild world than almost anything I can think of. So if you do care about the natural world and want to support it, I would like to suggest that there is no better way of doing so than helpin...
I was doing my usual being-single-sucks song-and-dance with my mentor, when he gave me a piece of advice that changed my whole strategy. “Stop worrying about finding the right person. Start working on becoming the right person.” Be the Right Person to Marry Why were all the girls ...
*Click to sign up for my newsletter and receive a free 5 X 7 print! Text and artwork © Sue Shanahan “I believe everybody’s light is bright as a child. It’s really bright and pure. And then slowly you are influenced by who everyone wants you to be. Over time if not nurtured...
Climate change deniers have often employed something like this as one of their, perhaps unconscious, excuses. Something that we can’t see because we don’t want to is the equivalent of a child covering their ears and saying “I can’t hear you; I can’t hear you.” ...
Oh no, I knew the truth. There would be crying and screaming and no sleep. My life would change. The amount of worry and fear that I already carried would have no end. What if I didn’t love my child? What if they hated me? What if I passed on everything I didn’t like about...