Ask Lacey: Does Paying Off Debt or Investing for the Future Take Priority? It’s usually better to eliminate your debt, or at least reduce it, before investing in long-term savings such as your IRA.
What to Do (and What Not to Do) with Your Pay Raise Here's what to do -- and what not to do -- to ensure your pay raise sets you up for financial success.
More Money, Less Debt: New Study Reveals Military Households' Financial Trajectory Since 2019 While many military families appear to be doing better than their civilian counterparts financially, they still face...
Protecting Your Family as You Leave the Military: 3 Options and an Imperative As you prepare to take off the uniform, take the steps necessary to ensure that in the event of your death, your family won't...
Your Year-End Financial Action Plan, Part 3: Tackling Debt While you may not be able to dig all the way out of debt in 2024, you can clearly chart a path that will allow you to get...
4 Steps to Maximize Your Holiday Budget By planning ahead and sticking to these four tactics, you can enjoy the spirit of the holidays without the stress of...
Keep Your Military Money Nightmares at Bay More dreadful than a haunted house tour in a hearse, tales of financial doom aren't fiction. They're painful realities. But...
Fraud, Debt, Car Prices and More: Here Are 2024's Scary Statistics Here are 2024's facts, figures and fodder for examining trends in personal finance.
Military Families Less Likely to Dip into Retirement Savings, Survey Says -- with One Big Exception Those who wear or have worn the military uniform, based on this particular survey, appear less likely to have tapped their...
New Survey Confirms Military Service Is a Financial Differentiator The results of the 2024 Retirement Confidence Survey confirmed what I have long believed: Military service is a...
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...