Jill Cornfield

Take a close look at someone who's firmly on the path to financial independence - on a schoolteacher's salary…

When Sarah Ballard's kitchen tile floor shifted and tiles began to crack, she knew she'd have to come up with…

You know your friend who's always fretting about her credit cards - and always buying new shoes? If you think…

I like my personal finance clean and uncluttered, and with references to smart living. But you get the opposi…

This is embarrassing for a financial writer to admit: I didn't save for retirement until relatively recently.…

We all need to be ready for financial shocks - those unexpected, everyday emergencies that can wreck your bud…

If you're like most people, you have less than $75,000 saved for retirement. Yet, you keep hearing that you n…

If you have a baby with obvious problems, sooner or later someone will hand you an essay called "Welcome to H…

Pity poor Starbucks. The coffee drinks megachain seems to be on everyone's hit list as the top example of how…

They think they'll never retire. They don't know who's in charge of their retirement, or the associated costs…

One summer, plan sponsors began receiving ominous letters from Ian Ayres, a professor at Yale Law School, war…

You can afford this or that, and you think you want it. But should you buy it? We live in a country that real…

Formal, part-time jobs for kids are so last century - the percentage of teens with jobs peaked 40 years ago -…