Your kid may be cute and mean, but law school is expensive and may not reap the highest paying returns. In today's installment of "Expensive Educational Investments to Carefully Consider" we highlight the returns of law school. Everyone knows that lawyers are cool and get to wear suits and are paid to be mean to other people [...]
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Here's over 100,000 reasons you shouldn't feel pressure to buy a bounce house for your kid's party. At the risk of deflating anyone's party plans - and by "anyone" I refer to our tiny friends under age 7 -- it's worth wondering whether our bounce house rental money wouldn't be better spent on, well, absolutely anything other than a bounce house [...]
These are among the deadly diet pills that can pierce holes in your stomach. Let's talk about all the infuriating aspects surrounding latest round of diet pill recalls. In case you have been so busy with your New Year's resolution dieting -- or money-saving or private-fuming because it's so hard being nice to people -- to notice, two major diet pills [...]
The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood is not impressed with the way "Hello Barbie" spies on our kids. While kids get excited about the holiday gift-giving extravaganza, toy companies are salivating. Sure, store shelves are lined with hundreds of products designed for fun, but some game-makers managed to sneak in a few ways to spy on our families, [...]
Kids who play sports grow up to make more money and now we know why. But we also know your kid doesn't have be the star player - or even on a varsity team - to reap the adult financial rewards that childhood sports can offer. Lori Wolk, a mother of three in Parkland Florida, has always [...]
So much for trying to supplement your healthy lifestyle. Butala Emporium of Jackson Heights, NY is recalling eleven supplements because they contain elevated LEAD and MERCURY levels. If a child or pregnant woman is exposed to lead for weeks or months, then the expected damages would include problems with the central nervous system, learning disorders and developmental fetal defects. [...]
The last thing you want to do in mourning is learn about investment laws. Brushing up on some basics now can make this easier later. If you inherit securities, you'll need to know the price of the security on the day the person died. That value is called the cost basis. You need to know this because when [...]
Sometimes online reviews are anything but objective, the government found. Today we slide "online reviews" into the vast column titled, "Don't Believe Everything You Read on the Internet." An automobile shipment company called AmeriFreight offered discounts and other cash incentives to customers for writing glowing online reviews, says the Federal Trade Commission. Giving people cash is an excellent way to [...]
We want our kids to make money, but should we tell them to get jobs or start businesses? Here's what you need to know. Should we tell our kids or teens to get jobs? Or should we encourage them to run small businesses and get a head start on the basics of achieving world [...]
