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Emily Pfund is a financial writer for best money moves covering a range of topics from credit card debt to bankruptcy to healthcare.

Anthem, Cigna Merger, Health Care Costs, and New Financial Stress Numbers

By |November 22nd, 2016|Categories: For Employees, For Employers|Tags: , , , , , |

In this week’s Best Money Moves roundup, we take a look at news stories and new research studies that may impact employee benefits and HR issues. We hope you find this news roundup helpful, and we’d love your feedback. Is [...]

Donald Trump, the Affordable Care Act and Your Employee Benefits

By |November 16th, 2016|Categories: For Employers|Tags: , , , , , |

In this week’s Best Money Moves roundup, we take a look at news stories and new research studies that may impact employee benefits and HR issues. We hope you find this helpful, and we’d love your feedback. Were your employees [...]

How Many Americans Struggle with Financial Stress? The Answer May Surprise You

By |October 28th, 2016|Categories: For Employers, Uncategorized|Tags: , , , , , |

How many Americans struggle with financial stress? The answer may surprise you. Even though the Great Recession is mostly behind us, the majority of Americans are still stressing out about their finances. In a recent study by Northwestern Mutual, 85 [...]

How Employee Benefits Changed Over 20 Years

By |September 30th, 2016|Categories: For Employers|Tags: , , , , , |

A lot of things have changed since 1996. Cell phones are smaller and smarter, the Internet is a whole lot faster and superfoods like kale are now in everything from cookies to chocolate. Welcome to the new age. It turns [...]

College Costs Are Outpacing Most People’s Income Growth – by a Lot

By |September 26th, 2016|Categories: For Employees|Tags: , , , , , , |

College costs a lot. In fact, today’s college students are taking on unprecedented amounts of debt to pay for an education - they hope - will lead to better career prospects down the road. Watching Millennials struggle under this load [...]

More Employees Are Making Their Best Money Moves

By |September 16th, 2016|Categories: For Employers|Tags: , , , , |

This week we launched another customer into the Best Money Moves program: the Kenneth Young Center, a nonprofit organization offering community mental health and senior services in Chicago’s northwest suburbs. We’re thrilled to have them on board and excited to [...]