Jill On Money: Paying for college
By Jill Schlesinger As college acceptance letters pour in, it’s time for families to get real, and to make decisions…
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Clinton, Eaton and Ingham County Residents Asked To Complete Important Housing Survey
Tri-County Launches Housing Project for Greater Lansing Region HousingDrives to Provide Assessment of Current Housing Market LANSING, Mich. — The…
Jill On Money: Investor Boot Camp 2022
By Jill Schlesinger Many of you have asked about how to start investing, so here is my version of Investor…
Jill On Money: Can I donate more to my Roth?
By Jill Schlesinger This Q&A is devoted to your questions about Roth IRAs and other retirement planning options. Send me…
Jill On Money: The great reshuffle
By Jill Schlesinger The Great Resignation is so 2021. This year, we should replace that term with a new one,…
Jill On Money: Tax season is now open
By Jill Schlesinger As we start the third tax season of the COVID-19 era, I advise you to take a…
Jill On Money: What’s new for 2022?
By Jill Schlesinger It may have taken a brutal twenty-two months of a pandemic to do it, but when it…
Jill On Money: The best books of 2021
By Jill Schlesinger One of the coolest parts of my job is interviewing authors of books that pique my interest–and…
Jill On Money: The real estate conundrum: No houses
By Jill Schlesinger
A year ago, the nation's housing market, like the rest of the economy, went into a deep, COVID-induced freeze. By the summer, the real estate industry had adjusted to socially distanced open houses and buyers were trying to get ahead of what would become a long year of work and school from home.
Jill On Money: Women working 5 to 9
By Jill Schlesinger
A year of COVID-19 has devastated the US labor market. Despite recouping more than half of the 22 million jobs that vanished during the past twelve months–and a better-than-expected February report, the country still has 9.5 million fewer jobs (6.2%) than the pre-pandemic level a year ago.