Dollars and Sense
Justin Sullivan, Getty Images Are You Ready to Pay 50 Cents for a Stamp? — Dollars and Sense
Facing huge budget shortfalls, the United States Postal Service has proposed solutions including closing hundreds of post offices and eliminating Saturday deliveries. Now it may be considering jacking up the price of stamps, too.
DavidMartynHunt, Flickr Just ‘Cause You’re Freelance Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Get Full-Time Perks – Dollars and Sense
Freelancing allows you to make money on your own terms without permanent employment, but it also means you don’t have access to certain perks like group insurance, administrative support and job growth assistance. Though, since a reported 30 percent of the US workforce is now freelance, that has changed.
gibsonsgolfer, Flickr Can You Still See Movies Without Breaking the Bank? — Dollars and Sense
Ticket prices for movies recently hit an all-time high of almost $8.00, and with the current state of the economy, that’s meant a lot of people don’t head to cineplexes as often as they used to.
But that doesn’t mean folks aren’t seeing movies — they’re just finding more cost-effective ways to do it.
Chris Chambers, Getty Images Who’s Cashing In on Jeremy Lin’s Success? — Dollars and Sense
Unless you’ve been involved in a total media blackout, you’ve likely heard about Jeremy Lin — aka “Linsation” — the New York Knicks guard who’s such an on-court phenomenon that TV ratings of Knicks games have jumped 70 percent, causing the publicly traded stock of Madison Square Garden, where the team plays, to hit a 52-week high.
But Wall Street isn’t the only one profiting from all the hype.
goodncrazy, Flickr Giving Kids an Allowance May Do More Harm Than Good — Dollars and Sense
For years, the prevailing wisdom behind doling out allowances to kids has been that the practice helps children learn about budgets, which, in turn, leads to better spending habits when they grow up — assumptions that may not be true.
Mark Renders, Getty Images Why Kia Just May Be the Best Car to Buy — Dollars and Sense
Kelley Blue Book’s first-ever ‘Total Cost of Ownership Award Winners‘ considered factors like purchase price, fuel expenditures and expected maintenance and depreciation to come up with the cars it says have the lowest-projected overall cost of ownership.
The big winner in the brand category? South Korean automaker Kia.
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