I've been following the money this past week. "The money," in this case, is the sprawling and spiraling world of sustainable finance.
The ensuing conversations — and, no doubt, many more to come — are a continuation of the learning journey I've been on for the past few years, seeking to understand the role of the financial sector in advancing sustainability solutions and a clean, decarbonized economy. For someone who's quickly out of his depth when it comes to money matters, it's been a steep learning curve.
Not to change the topic here:
How Mark Zuckerberg's Millions Made Election 2020 Go Smoothly : NPR
Detroit election workers count absentee ballots for the 2020 general election at TCF Center on Nov. 4. Election offices around the U.S. say they couldn't have carried out this year's challenging election without help from a nonprofit tied to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Jeff Kowalsky/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
These challenges had forced many election offices to burn through their budgets months earlier. Turner had previously served as the county's emergency manager, experience that seemed apt for overseeing an election that many observers feared would become a catastrophe.
Millennial Money: 10 money insights distilled over 25 years | WTOP
The importance of money has less to do with affording the newest iPhone or measuring career success, and far more to do with the core of being human: freedom, ego, stress and relationships.
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It's also the year I became business news editor at a daily newspaper in Pennsylvania, where I started editing guest columns written by local financial planners and stock brokers. I quickly became fascinated with the baffling world of personal finance.
Don't Waste Your Money: How to watch "A Charlie Brown Christmas" this year
Christmas shows like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and "A Charlie Brown Christmas" have been holiday traditions for half a century.
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Viewers looking for "A Charlie Brown Christmas" won't find it on ABC or CBS stations this year for the first time in 50 years!
Apple announced you will be able to stream "A Charlie Brown Christmas on Apple TV free from Dec. 11 to Dec. 13.
But from the doesn't that stink file, the fact that Apple's freebie offer doesn't help grandma or grandpa who don't stream and just watch cable or antenna TV.
This may worth something:
Benevity Data Shows That More People Gave More Money to Nonprofits in 2020 Than They Did Last
Benevity Data Shows That More People Gave More Money to Nonprofits in 2020 Than They Did Last Year
Benevity analyzed data from nearly 11 million users with 480 client companies using its corporate purpose platform from January through October 2019 and 2020 for a year-over-year comparison.
CALGARY, Alberta, Dec. 08, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Benevity , Inc., the leading provider of global corporate purpose software, today announced that 51 percent more people donated through its platform from January though October 2020, giving 41 percent more dollars per donation, and culminating in an average of $64 per donation compared to $46 the year prior.
The 'unexplained' reasons female feds make less money
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The last 20 years has seen the pay gap between male and female federal employees shrink considerably, as women made generally 19 cents less per dollar than men in 1999 but made just 7 cents less in 2017.
But according to a Government Accountability Office report released Dec. 3, most of the existing pay gap between male and female employees in the government is the result of "unexplained factors."
"Prior research has found that the gender pay gap for federal workers is partly explained by differences between men and women in measurable factors that affect pay, such as occupation, education and experience. This is referred to as the explained pay gap.
Eyebuy: Sweeping glances can 'cost you money' -- ScienceDaily
Unplanned purchases are an important profit source for retailers. Because looking at products is always the first step in making a purchase decision, retailers apply various strategies in order to bring shoppers in juxtaposition with the store assortment.
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"In looking at shelves shoppers always see a subset of the assortment and which subset they see critically depends on their visual attention," says Streicher. "We were able to show that attentional patterns can be unconsciously broadened or even narrowed down by simple in-store communications.
How to save money every month? Only buy what you can carry.
While a lot of people lost income during the pandemic, many also found themselves spending much less. Entire spending categories, from travel and entertainment to salons and dining out, were erased when the country went into the first wave of pandemic lockdowns.
I saved money in many of those categories, but there was one area in which my spending skyrocketed during the first few months of the pandemic: food. I was ordering delivery more than I should have been, but I was also spending a lot more at the grocery store as cooking became one of the few hobbies I could still partake in. Here's a simple trick I used to get my supermarket spending under control.
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