While some assume that more money equals more happiness, multiple studies have tried to find the magic number around yearly income that makes people content. In fact, a 2010 Princeton University study revealed that happiness increases higher and higher until $75,000 yearly is achieved, where it then levels off and earnings might not necessarily improve...
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Survey: Parents Willing To Rack Up Debt For Children’s Education
A survey conducted in April of this year by Country Financial reveals that 56 percent of parents across the United States would be willing to go into debt for their children’s higher-level education. On average, the report revealed parents were willing to go as high as $31,000 in the hole for their kids when it...
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Survey: One-Quarter Of Americans Expect To Die In Debt
While Rep. Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez and Sen. Bernie Sanders work to lower interest rates around credit cards, results of an online survey remind us all that debt, especially from those plastic and convenient cards, can be a hard thing to dig out of. CreditCards.com recently surveyed 1,000 American adults online, revealing that approximately 25 percent of...
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40% Of U.S. Households Would Struggle Over $400-Emergency
A recent Federal Reserve survey revealed quite a bit of American households are financially fragile state, despite having a booming economy, along with 50-year record low as it relates to unemployment. The 2018 Fed’s report that focuses on the economic well-being of U.S. households, discovered that most of the measures around financial resilience and wellbeing...
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Survey: American’s Top Financial Regrets
As the old saying goes, “you don’t regret the things you do, you regret the things you don’t do”. According to a Bankrate survey, the same goes for financial regrets, with 76 percent of respondents stating that they have a minimum of one major financial regret; of these, 56 percent noted they were not happy...
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Kids Activities & Your Budget: How Not To Go In Debt
As parents, we love nothing more than to support our children’s extracurricular endeavors. Whether they are interested in baseball, basketball, gymnastics, guitar lessons – or anything else in between – we are willing to do just about anything when it comes to helping them pursue hobbies and sports they show an interest in. Even overspend...
