Jill On Money: Muddled in the middle
By Jill Schlesinger “Jill, when I hear politicians talking about the middle class, what do they mean?” To answer this…
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Jill On Money: We bonded over numbers
By Jill Schlesinger When my 98-year-old mother in-law passed away this month, I thought back to the first time I…
Jill On Money: Scorching summer job heat means more rate hikes
By Jill Schlesinger The post-COVID labor market recovery is like this summer’s weather: SCORCHING. The government reported that 528,000 jobs…
Jill On Money: Social Security primer and update
By Jill Schlesinger In honor of the 85th anniversary of the first time that the U.S. government collected taxes for…
Jill On Money: Summer housing in transition
By Jill Schlesinger After hearing three stories about home sales that blew up within days of closing, I figured that…
Jill On Money: June jobs take-away: No recession yet
By Jill Schlesinger Despite the hand-wringing over a coming recession and sentiment levels dropping to all-time lows, the June employment…
Don’t Wait…Prepare for it
By Landis Lain Recently a young relative perished in a motorcycle accident at the age of thirty-three. He left a…
Jill On Money: Mid-year Q&A
By Jill Schlesinger It’s been a heck of a six months for investors. Given that you can’t control markets, let’s…
Jill On Money: The housing affordability crisis
By Jill Schlesinger When the government released March inflation data, it showed that prices increased by 8.5 percent from a year…
Jill On Money: Spring cleaning for your money
By Jill Schlesinger It’s a happy coincidence for clean freaks like me that the height of tax season occurs as…