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15 Ways Retirees Can Soak Up Spring for Free 03/13/2018 08:00pm • As the days lengthen and the sun shines more often, it's easy to feel the urge to move, get outdoors and try new activities. During retirement, a more flexible schedule gives you the chance to decide exactly what you want to do, and then set your own pace to truly absorb spring. Even if your retire The Pros and Cons of Credit Cards 03/12/2018 08:00pm • A 3-inch-by-2-inch piece of plastic holds the power to simplify your financial life -- or ruin it. Whether a credit card turns out to be friend or foe depends on how you use it, says Beverly Harzog, a credit expert and author of "The Debt Escape Plan." "Credit cards are not evil," she says. "They r 5 Signs You Will Never Retire 03/11/2018 08:00pm • Most Americans aren't saving nearly enough for retirement. Some workers who haven't saved fear that they will never be able to retire. However, there may still be time to change course and reach your retirement goals. If you sit down with a financial planner or even a retirement calculator, you shou 10 Factors That Don't Affect Your Credit Scores 03/11/2018 08:00pm • You probably know that having great credit lifts your finances like hot air in a balloon. It allows you to borrow at low interest rates, which saves huge amounts of interest on loans and credit cards. Additionally, having good credit helps your financial life in some surprising ways, including payin 4 Tips to Stretch Income in Retirement 03/11/2018 08:00pm • The transition to retirement can be an exhilarating but also potentially stressful time for many individuals and their families. The newfound freedom to pursue those "someday" dreams is accompanied by anxieties of whether or not there are sufficient financial means to make them a reality. For this r No fare hikes, services cuts or expansions as Metro budget moves to final vote 03/09/2018 06:05am • WASHINGTON — Metro riders will not face fare hikes or service cuts this summer under the budget proposal the Metro Board preliminary approved Thursday. But riders will not see any service expansions either. The full board on March 22 is scheduled to approve the plan that maintains the servic $1 billion in unclaimed tax refunds; time running out to claim them 03/08/2018 05:09pm • WASHINGTON — About a million people who failed to file 2014 taxes are sitting on more than $1 billion in unclaimed federal income tax refunds, the Internal Revenue Service announced Thursday. But in order to collect that hefty chunk of cash, they'll have to dig out those old W-2s and file their 3 Reasons to Apply for Scholarships That Offer More Than Money 03/07/2018 07:00pm • Scholarship application essays often ask how winning an award could change your life. It's hard not to just think about the ways money could help with college costs. A $10,000 scholarship, for example, could help you bridge the gap between your savings and a college's cost of attendance. It also co Netflix Stock May Have Run Out of Steam 03/07/2018 07:00pm • Netflix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NFLX) stock hit the ground running in 2018, but even some of the biggest Netflix bulls are a getting a bit uneasy about the stock's nearly 70 percent gain in just over two months. On Wednesday, Stifel analyst Scott Devitt downgraded Netflix and says the stock's share price ha Why We Keep Making the Same Money Mistakes 03/07/2018 07:00pm • In theory, money management should be easy. Finance experts like Dave Ramsey and Mary Hunt say it boils down to spending less than you earn and saving enough for retirement and a rainy day. But in practice, people struggle to master managing their finances. As of December 2017, Americans collective 9 ETFs for Nervous Investors 03/07/2018 07:00pm • Protection and peace of mind.It has been a year of fireworks. After a rosy start to 2018, big downside moves in early February included two 1,000-point drops in the Dow Jones industrial average that erased all those gains. After clawing back those gains, the market was held back by fears of a global Escape DC? Tackle student loan debt? Get paid to move to rural America 03/07/2018 04:03am • WASHINGTON — Small towns in rural America are facing an economic survival crisis, and some are offering incentives to get people to move there. Take, for example, Loup City, Nebraska, population: 1,000. Loup City has turned farmland into a small neighborhood near town, named John Subdivision, w What Student Loan Borrowers Need to Know If Gainful Employment Rule Changes 03/06/2018 07:00pm • The gainful employment rule -- which aims to protect student loan borrowers by regulating poorly performing higher education programs -- has a long history of being debated and modified. Now, it's being revamped again. A third and final negotiated rule-making session will be held on March 12 to de DC tops national credit card debt list; Baltimore ranks 6th 03/06/2018 08:50am • WASHINGTON — Do you have a hefty balance on your credit card each month? If so, it turns out you’re not alone in the D.C. area. According to a study by CreditCards.com, residents of Washington and Baltimore are in the top-10 nationally when it comes to their average monthly card balance. Wreckage of famed US World War II carrier discovered 03/06/2018 08:14am • BANGKOK (AP) — A piece of prized World War II U.S. naval history, the wreckage of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, which was sunk by the Japanese in a crucial sea battle, has been discovered by an expedition funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. The expedition team announced that th