The Labor Department pushes a plan for a guide to clarify fees so that employers can better inform their employees.
Set your sights on a better future — by taking a look at your jam-packed schedule today.
Post columnist Michelle Singletary offered her advice and answers your questions.
Daughter, 18, asked a court to make her parents pay private school tuition and hand over her college fund.
The volatile investment is too risky for most investors.
Post columnist Michelle Singletary offered her advice and answers your questions.
Credit Suisse is accused of helping wealthy Americans hide billions in taxable income from Uncle Sam.
On March 5, personal finance columnist Michelle Singletary leads a discussion on how to set up and stick to a budget.
Every year, the Internal Revenue Service puts out its top 12 tax scams. Identity theft leads the list.
Getting rid of your smallest balances first can give you momentum.
Post columnist Michelle Singletary offered her advice and answers your questions.
Some in Congress are trying to make the tax code even more complicated — and favor an elite group of victors.
As the horrors of the Great Recession fade, it becomes easier for Americans to make bad financial decisions.
Study finds a growing income gap between those with degrees and high-school grads.
Post columnist Michelle Singletary offered her advice and answers your questions.
To hear the retailers tell it, the love is sweeter when you present your sweetie some bling, flowers and/or candy.
It may make it easier to cancel the wedding if you find you’re not a match when it comes to money matters.
The new kind of retirement savings account encourages small contributions — and returns.
Post columnist Michelle Singletary offered her advice and answers your questions.
Michelle Singletary writes the nationally syndicated personal finance column, “The Color of Money,” which appears in The Post on Wednesday and Sunday. Her award-winning column is syndicated by The Washington Post Writer’s Group and is carried in more than 100 newspapers. In 2010, she released her third personal finance book, “The Power To Prosper: 21 Days to Financial Freedom.” She has been a personal finance contributor for MSNBC, NPR and ABC’s daily talk show, “The Revolution.” For two seasons she hosted “Singletary Says” on TV One. In her spare time, Singletary is the director of a ministry she founded at her church, in which women and men volunteer to mentor others who are having financial challenges. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland at College Park. She has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from The Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a master’s degree in business and management.
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