The “top 1%” in terms of wealth….is FAR different than the ‘top 1% wager earner’. Most of us fail to truly understand that the real ‘wealthy’ among us do not have to work….nor do their children. We worker busy ourselves w/ ‘paycheck’ envy of those with a few scraps more...
A bread earner for her family, Mata managed to purchase a house in the Philippines using her savings and supported the education of her son. "Sometimes I feel I am a strong woman. I am very proud of my job," she said. Mata said she felt grateful as her employer respected her and tr...
In France, people are much less defined by their work. You're not a doctor in France; you're a person who also happens to practice medicine. You don't ask people at cocktail parties, “What do you do?” And if you do, you wouldn't expect an answer that talked about a job. In ...
Q1 results are, historically, the biggest money earner for Apple across the entire year, and for multiple good reasons. The chief one is that it's the quarter when Apple's iPhones are bought by the public. Though theiPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus,iPhone 15 Pro, and iPhone 15 Pro Max shippe...
Federal Money Market Fund today, as I record this, is paying over 4.5%, and the Fed's talking about boosting short-term interest rates another half percent here in the next month or so, at which point they'll be paying 5%. That's awfully good for what's essentially a guaranteed ...
Generally speaking, a Traditional IRA is the best choice if you expect to be in a lower tax bracket during retirement which is the case for most people. There are also income limits for Roth IRA’s, so if you’re a high-income earner, you’ll need to go Traditional as well. ...
and interesting jobs--which higher education gives. It is clear too that the reasons why such children leave have much to do with their social background. Their parents often need the extra money another money-earner would bring in;they don't value education for itself because their own was...
Some 68% of a typical second earner's net income is spent on freeing her to work, compared with an OECD average of 52%. The price of child care is not only eye-watering, but has also become a barrier to work. Soon after it took power the coalition government pledged to ensure that...
Don't overlook the number one way people share Facebook and Twitter get a lot of buzz, but in reality, 80 to 82 percent of all shares on the web occur from users copying and pasting text. This activity is often referred to as Dark Social since marketers and publishers don't have an ...
Special Considerations The federal government uses a slightly different method to calculate disposable income forwage garnishmentpurposes. This is the seizure of a portion of a wage earner's paycheck before it is paid every payday until the amount due for back taxes or overdue child support is pai...