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With Thanksgiving just around the corner, families across the country are getting ready for the biggest meal of the year. For many, this means making multiple trips to warehouse clubs to get the best deals on everything they’ll need for the occasion. By Nicole Spector In the realm of warehouse clubs, Costco and Sam’s Club reign supreme, but which one has the best Thanksgiving deals? Dollar Tree: 5 High-Quality Items To Buy NowImportant: If Your Credit Score Is Under 740, Make These 4 Moves Now...

Fidelity recently announced plans to hire an additional 9,000 employees by year’s end to help its platform keep up with the surge in demand for stock-trading and personal investment services. The hiring spree is actually the company’s third in the past year, as millions of new investors rushed to trading platforms like Fidelity, Charles Schwab and Robinhood to get in on the meme trading craze. Highly popularized trading sprees for stocks like GameStop and AMC fueled by social media saw an influx of new investors....

Families in Florida can get help paying for food through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. SNAP is a federally funded, locally or state-administered program designed to help low-income families receive the nutritious food they need to stay healthy. By Dawn Allcot Know: What Items Are Eligible for Purchase With Your EBT Food Stamps?Explore: Florida Senator Proposes Bill to Roll Back SNAP Work Requirements to Pre-Pandemic Age Limits...

Young entrepreneurs took up side hustles in record numbers in 2021 — and there’s no sign that the gig economy will slow down in the coming year. Many ideas will fail altogether, others will be successful enough to bring in a little cushion of cash on the side, and some might even work so well that the side hustle becomes a full-time thing. By Andrew Lisa In the rarest of cases, what started as a few bucks on the side will go on to change the world....

The housing market has been sizzling hot this year, with houses selling just as quickly as they’re going on the market. Strong demand and the limited housing supply did more than push up the value of homes, it also affected how long houses sat on the market. By Josephine Nesbit See: Will Your Chance to Own a Home Diminish in this Hot Housing Market?Find: Houses in These 29 Cities Are Suddenly Major Bargains...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is one of the biggest movie stars in the world. He rose to fame as a professional wrestler and successfully transitioned to acting–both on the big and small screens. By Gabrielle Olya Now, his acting career has earned him one of the highest net worths in entertainment. Next up for The Rock is “Black Adam,” the newest DC superhero movie to join the Warner Bros. Pictures’ franchise, which is set to be released in theaters today, Oct....

Copywriting is a form of writing that aims to persuade or convince a reader that a particular product or service is worth their money. In other words, it’s a call to action. With the shift of business more and more online, there’s a need for marketing strategies that can accommodate the digital world. By Lydia Kibet What Is a Copywriter Five Steps Finding Clients Tips for Beginners Companies invest in search engine optimization and other online marketing strategies — this is where copywriting comes in....

Although the idea of “forgotten money” may sound strange to some people, the truth is that there is a lot of misplaced 401(k) money floating around America. According to Capitalize, as of 2021, there were over 24 million forgotten 401(k) accounts, with assets totaling $1.35 trillion. In many cases, “lost” 401(k) money is the result of changing jobs, with retirement plan paperwork getting lost in the shuffle. Smaller 401(k) balances are more likely to be forgotten than large ones, but even sizable accounts can sometimes be overlooked, especially when workers have the misguided notion that they aren’t entitled to them if they leave a company....

News that Western Digital is in advanced merger talks with Japan’s Kioxia Holdings sent Western Digital’s stock soaring on Wednesday and raised speculation about how such a deal might turn the global chip industry upside down. By Vance Cariaga See: Chip Shortage Drives Record-Level Price Increases With No End in SightFind: When Will the Chip Shortage End? Experts Weigh In Months-long talks between the companies “have heated up” in recent weeks, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources who are familiar with the discussions....

It’s shaping up to be an expensive winter in the United States, with many households likely to spend more on energy in 2022-23 compared with recent winters, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This is due to the combination of higher fuel prices and forecasts for slightly colder weather than last winter. By Vance Cariaga See: States Whose Economies Are Failing vs. States Whose Economies Are ThrivingFind: 3 Easy Tips to Turn Your Credit Woes into Wows...

With Pride month just around the corner, a new study finds that LGBTQ+ employees as a group are less satisfied at work when compared to non-LGBTQ+ employees. In addition, the study finds that certain sectors fare better than others in terms of overall satisfaction. By Yaёl Bizouati-Kennedy LGBTQ+ Social Security: What Survivor Benefits Are You Eligible For?Find: 8 Expert Money Tips for the LGBTQ Community A new Glassdoor study shows that while there has been progress in diversity and inclusion efforts in the workplace and despite advances in equal rights for Americans who identify as LGBTQ+, there is still a significant gap in the workplace experiences of LGBTQ+ employees....

The bar for the 2022 holiday season was set low from the beginning. By Andrew Lisa Conventional wisdom said that shoppers would cut back on spending because steep inflation, rising interest rates and the threat of mass layoffs had left them overleveraged, anxious and broke. Take a Look Back: 2022 Year in Review Holiday Spending: Get Top Holiday Shopping and Savings Tips Here’s what’s happening with the three biggest threats to the winter holidays and a look at where consumer expectations intersect with the realities on the ground....

Unless you’ve already gone electric, you don’t need a news report to tell you about just how quickly gas prices are rising. The national average was just recently a record $4.316 per gallon, according to AAA, and one record keeps breaking another. Things are so bad that Uber and Lyft are imposing fuel surcharges to help keep their drivers afloat. By Andrew Lisa So what about people who only drive for themselves?...

Cryptocurrency was a hot topic in 2021, as Bitcoin set a new record high, crypto exchange Coinbase went public and El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender. But nowhere was the popularity of cryptocurrency more evident than on the mother of all search engines, Google. According to data from Google, two different cryptocurrencies — neither of which was Bitcoin — ranked in the top 10 of all Google searches for 2021....

The New York State Senate passed a bill that would establish a two-year moratorium on cryptocurrency mining operations that use proof-of-work authentication methods to validate blockchain transactions to avoid environmental impacts in the state. By Yaёl Bizouati-Kennedy See: Can I Buy Bitcoin With Klarna, Affirm or Afterpay?Find: 40% of Bitcoin Investors Are Now Underwater – Can the Cryptocurrency Bounce Back? The bill is now sent to Gov. Kathy Hochul, who could sign it into law or veto it, according to the senate’s website....

Citi® is one of the biggest banks in the world. It has almost 700 branches in the United States and 4,000 branches in other countries. No matter where you live in the U.S., there’s likely to be a Citi location or ATM near you. By Cynthia Bowman Checking and Savings Promos Business Promos Credit Card Promos Other Offers Choosing Citi Like many banks, Citi offers promotions to attract new customers to the bank....

A residential hard money loan is a way for borrowers to get money for a home purchase without using traditional lenders. Hard money loans don’t use traditional forms of credit for approval but rather rely primarily on collateral. Although traditional mortgage loans also use homes as collateral, hard money loans typically require higher levels of collateral and charge higher rates. But for some borrowers, hard money loans may be the best — or only — option for their financing needs....

One of the best ways to enhance your retirement benefits (i.e., get fatter Social Security checks) is to delay claiming them. Recent research from David Altig, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Victor Yifan Ye found that virtually all U.S. workers ages 45 to 62 would benefit from waiting until after age 65 to begin receiving Social Security benefits, and that 90% would benefit from waiting until age 70 to start collecting them....

New research shows that huge swaths of the millennial generation are betting big on cryptocurrency — maybe too big. In fact, more than a quarter of them have so much faith in Bitcoin, Ethereum and the rest that they’re betting their retirements on portfolios filled almost entirely with crypto. By Andrew Lisa The Future of Finances: Gen Z & How They Relate to MoneyAdvice: 5 Things You Must Do When Your Savings Reach $50,000...

Once upon a time, consumers didn’t have too many options for where to buy personal care items like shampoo and toothpaste. Today, there are giant department stores, drugstores, grocery stores and dollar stores to choose from. Of all these choices, the trove of dollar stores are usually the cheapest option. By Nicole Spector Learn: 9 Bills You Should Never Put on AutopaySocial Security: New Bill Could Give Seniors an Extra $2,400 a Year...