Welcome to another edition of the Young Adult’s Perspective series, where we offer tips and strategies to help newly financially independent young adults manage their finances and stay debt free. In last week’s post, we covered how to set financial goals that you can accomplish in six months or ...

Let’s face it, interacting with our smartphones has nearly become a full-time job for many of us, and it’s a job that isn’t helping us earn money. Nearly all adults -- 95 percent of us -- own a cellphone, according to the Pew Research Center; and 77 percent of us have smartphones. And ...

As wages stagnate and Americans look for new ways to supplement their household income or escape the 9-to-5 life, the small home-based business is booming. According to the most recent numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 23 million businesses without paid employees in the United States i...