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Yesterday, I provided a briefing about financial literacy initiatives to House Minority Whip Leader Steny Hoyer at the Maryland’s 5th Congressional District Women’s Network Advisory Committee (WNAC,) “Women Surviving in Challenging Times,” meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 21 at the Clarion hotel in Waldorf, Maryland. The purpose of the briefing was to provide an overview of [...]

Christine Parker, CFP®

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Future Federal Employees On the Hook.  A deal was struck in congress on Friday to keep certain tax cuts and benefits from expiring at the end of this month.  They included extending a 2 percent social security payroll tax cut for employees from the normal 6.2 percent, extending the unemployment extended benefits program and keeping the Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors.   Richard [...]

Christine Parker, CFP®

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Prince George’s County School Board cannot afford to fund a financial literacy program in the high schools to ensure every student learns basis money management skills that are essential to live-learning.  Have we not learned anything from the greatest recession of our lifetime?  Our children and grandchildren cannot afford to be deprived of these basic everyday life skills. Maryland State [...]

Christine Parker, CFP®