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15 Part-Time Jobs With Benefits (Health Insurance, Retirement & More)
You don’t have to work full-time to get full-time benefits. Many major employers extended benefits to part-time workers, including health insurance, sick days and retirement accounts. For the most part, there’s no federal mandate for employers to offer benefits to part-time workers (and no legal classification of what constitutes a part-time worker). But companies often...
Apr 4, 2026
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Jen Smith is a former staff writer for The Penny Hoarder.
Apr 18, 2026
How to Figure Out How Much You’ll Really Need in Retirement
Want to stop working someday and retire? It takes money to make that happen. If you don’t know how much you will need, you’re in the majority. A 2019 study from Northwestern Mutual that polled 2,003 American adults found that 56% didn’t know how much money they’ll need to retire. The same study found that...
Apr 18, 2026
12 Ways to Stretch Your Dollar During Retirement
Retirement is when you get to finally enjoy the freedom you’ve worked hard for all your life. But with that freedom also comes the reality of living on a fixed income and making sure your nest egg can last the rest of your life. In fact, 64% of Americans are more worried about running out...
Apr 18, 2026
Identity Thieves File Your Taxes for You? Here’s What You Need to Do Next
The FTC and the IRS created IdentityTheft.gov to make it easier for victims of tax-related identity theft to report the crime.
Apr 18, 2026
Should You Invest When the Stock Market Is Near Record Highs?
You want to buy low and sell high, but guess what? So does everyone else. If we all had time machines, of course we’d go back to March 23, 2020, the day the S&P 500 reached its low and throw money into the stock market. If you’d invested in an S&P 500 index fund then,...
Apr 18, 2026
3 Ways to Save on Medicare as Premiums Rise
If you’re on Medicare in 2025, the good news is that your out-of-pocket costs for Part D medications are capped at $2,000 this year – the lowest amount ever. You can also get on a payment plan for your Part D prescriptions if you can’t afford the out-of-pocket costs all at once. The bad news...
Apr 18, 2026
40 Best Companies For Remote Work in 2026: Work From Home or Anywhere
Ready to ditch the cubicle and communal kitchen? This list of work-from-home companies will have you doing just that.
Apr 18, 2026
11 Startup Business Ideas That Won’t Break the Bank
Sometimes we think of starting a business as some major, risky, life-changing expense that will require a huge loan or major funding from investors. But that’s simply not the case. Sure, if you’re opening up a downtown restaurant or a retail outlet, then you’ll probably need big bucks to get off the ground. However, there...
Apr 4, 2026
Phased Retirement: What Does It Mean And How Does It Work?
Retirement is changing. Around 19% of adults ages 65 and older are employed today, according to Pew Research Center. In 1987, only 11% of older adults were still working. Multiple factors are causing this shift, including people living healthier, longer lives and changes to Social Security that allowed workers to start collecting their full retirement...
Apr 18, 2026
Fidelity Go Review: A Low-Fee Robo-Advisor
Fidelity Go is the robo-advisor member of the Fidelity Investments family, offering customers automated portfolios of zero expense ratio Fidelity flex funds with low $10 minimum investment requirements.
Jul 25, 2026
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New York contributor Kiara Taylor specializes in financial literacy and financial technology subjects. She is a corporate financial analyst who also leads a group affiliated with University of Cincinnati that teaches financial literacy to Black students and helps them secure employment and internships.
Apr 18, 2026