Small Business

How Millennials Could Make or Break the Brexit Vote

By Suman Bhattacharyya

In the final days before the referendum on Britain leaving the EU, poll numbers show the “leave” and “remain” sides in a dead heat. The Financial Times Brexit poll of polls has “leave” at 45 percent...
13 Tax Tips for Self-Employed Workers in 2016

By Janna Herron

The gig economy often means trickier taxes for self-employed workers. A third of the American workforce falls into that category, according to TurboTax, including 3.2 million on-demand workers, like...
How To Become an Everyday Millionaire…From Those Who’ve Done It

By Janna Herron

When you picture a millionaire’s lifestyle, does townhouse living or budgeting only $40,000 a year come to mind? Probably not. But it’s that type of frugal living that helped four everyday people to...
The Naughty Employee Costing Your Company More Than $12,000

By Millie Dent

We all have those colleagues who criticize you to co-workers behind your back, make rude remarks about your outfit or demand extra work from everyone but themselves. These toxic behaviors might be...
Employees Are Paying More – Much More – for Health Care

By Beth Braverman

While wages have been stagnant over the past decade, the amount that workers pay for employer-sponsored health insurance has more than doubled. Average employees at mid-size and large companies paid...

Behind Every Successful Woman, There’s a Clock

By Beth Braverman

Author Laura Vanderkam has made a career out of studying how people spend their time. For her latest book, I Know How She Does It: How Successful Women Make the Most of Their Time , Vanderkam looked...
10 Worst States for Working Mothers

By Marine Cole

Working mothers may want to avoid moving to the South, where the quality of child care leaves a lot to be desired and professional opportunities are scarce.
What Successful People Don't Say at Work

By Travis Bradberry, Inc.com

You can't build a strong professional network if you don't open up to your colleagues; but doing so is tricky, because revealing the wrong things can have a devastating effect on your career.
10 Worst Cities to Start a Business in 2015

By Marine Cole

If you’re about to start a business, you may want to stay away from the New York City area and from the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas.
10 Best Cities to Start a Business

By Marine Cole

Some of the best cities to start a business are located in the South, where resources for small companies are often more available and more affordable than in Silicon Valley or the New York area.

17 Great Travel Apps for Your Vacation

By Dominique Bonessi, The Fiscal Times

With thousands of apps right at your fingertips, consider downloading these 17 handy travel apps for easy ways to save money, time, and a few headaches.
10 Ways to Launch Your Dream Retirement Job

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Years ago, Americans worked for one company or union, and left there with a plaque and a pat on the head. Today we have the option of having multiple careers, but the trick is to do it successfully,...
Why Data Analysts Can Peer Into Your Future

By Maureen Mackey, The Fiscal Times

Businesses and companies – not to mention the federal government – are ascertaining untold truths about us as private individuals and consumers through the use of Big Data. And the new technologies...
The Days of Exploiting Unpaid Interns Are Over

By Blaire Briody, The Fiscal Times

Two unpaid interns – Alex Footman and Eric Glatt – who worked on the movie Black Swan won a massive lawsuit against their former “employer” Fox Searchlight on Tuesday that could do away with the...
Why July Could Be Terrible for the Economy

By Josh Boak, The Fiscal Times

The impact of the more than $80 billion in sequestration cuts has yet to be felt. Sure, the federal government shed 14,000 jobs in May.

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