Money Sophie Talks Video

Summer jobs. You can get whats left when school ends, or you can get the best of em right now. But before you do, youd better think about what you really want from that job: Money? Experience? A hot social life?
Whatever your choice, its never too early to start the search.
We know, we know, youve got finals and baseball season and spring break on your mind.
But, high schoolers, this is your head start on the college kids.
College kids, you know the semester will only get crazier as the weeks roll by.
Parents, unless youve got a spot picked out for junior and princess in your office, shove them out into the world of wages as soon as you can because in just a few weeks, the number of younguns looking for work will multiply exponentially.
Between April and July of last year, the youth labor force (workers age 16 to 24) grew by 3.2 million, to a total of 24.7 million, the U.S.

Handle money well and you will be more attractive to potential mates

Singles who are financially responsible are more attractive to potential mates than those who are not. If you grew up in a household where you learned the wise use of money, you may take it for granted that everyone is that way. Not true. Here, from one of our readers, is information for accurately assessing how well your date handles money.

"My husband made more money than me – he had a six-figure income. When we both worked, it seemed like we never had a handle on spending. After children arrived, I eventually became a stay-at-home mother for our three children. As I paid the bills, I became aware of our spending habits. He’d go on business trips and spend hundreds of dollars unnecessarily. Meanwhile, I was saving pennies by buying clothing for the kids and me at the Goodwill Store.

Elon project to raise funds to feed the hungry

A group of Elon University senior seminar students are planning a class project to host a benefit dinner for the Caring Kitchen. The kitchen has been serving warm meals to homeless and low-income people in the Burlington area since 1989. The students goal is to raise $1,000 to go toward the meals that the kitchen serves each Saturday and Sunday. The dinner will be held on Tuesday, April 17 at 6:30 p.m. at the Powerline Church, 701 Manning Ave., Elon. The students will prepare and serve the meal and will also organize a Chinese auction to raise money. We decided to do this project because we wanted to raise money and awareness for the Caring Kitchen using all of our different skills in communications, said senior Caitlin Burke. The students have been working in their specific fields to organize and plan the benefit dinner.