Families can limit money strife by selecting a ‘CFO’
It takes a lot to manage a family’s finances, but too often no one is leading the way. The result is husbands and wives fighting over money. Instead, families need to evaluate how they handle money to head off disputes. One way to do this is to make one person in charge.
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It’s smart to have a plan before retiring
Myhusband and I are hoping to retire—or at least reduce our work schedules—when our youngest child, who is now 9, graduates from college. We decided to wait until that benchmark is met to make sure we’re still in our peak earning years to pay for our children’s education without incurring any debt.
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Students: Smart phones should be allowed in classrooms
Smart phones can equal smart kids — that’s what a group of Chicago Mikva Challenge students say. Kids should be able to use now-banned cell phones in Chicago Public School classrooms to look up definitions, do on-the-spot internet searches, record lectures for later review and conduct surveys, among other things, kids said in a 52-page white paper of CPS technology recommendations released Friday.
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