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How I’m Managing our Family Budget during the Pandemic

Family Balance Sheet

How I’m managing our family budget during the Pandemic: We pay ourselves at the beginning of each month, so when this crisis started in mid-March, we were covered for the month. We paid off our last non-mortgage debt in September and have since sent that loan’s monthly payment to our mortgage principal.

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What Is National Financial Literacy Month?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

On March 28, 2012 the Senate passed Resolution 409 that officially recognized April as National Financial Literacy Month. Well according to the bill’s sponsors, in the resolution presented to and passed by the 112 th Congress this March, we have a lot of issues to solve. Why do we need it?

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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

.” Spending is up, but saving isn’t, according to the Bureau of Economic Analysis April 2016 news release, “Personal saving — DPI [disposable personal income] less personal outlays — was $751.1 billion in April, compared with $809.4 billion in March. percent, compared with 5.9 The wealth effect.