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The Art of Asking Your Parents for Money
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The Art of Asking Your Parents for Money

Listen to article(1 minute)WSJ’s Personal Finance team presents a series on how to fix your financial life in 2024. Up now: asking for money Hitting your parents up for cash as an adult can be awkward. But sometimes the best money move is to ask for help.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Where Did All the Money Go? The Villain in Your Transaction History
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Where Did All the Money Go? The Villain in Your Transaction History

Listen to article(2 minutes)WSJ’s Personal Finance team presents a series on how to fix your financial life in 2024. First up: taking on lifestyle creep.Anyone trying to figure out why they are scraping by at the end of the year could safely pin part of the blame on inflation. Higher prices have made it easier than ever to miss that other sneaky cause of overspending: lifestyle creep. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
Where Did All the Money Go? The Villain in Your Transaction History
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Where Did All the Money Go? The Villain in Your Transaction History

Listen to article(2 minutes)WSJ’s Personal Finance team presents a series on how to fix your financial life in 2024. First up: taking on lifestyle creep.Anyone trying to figure out why they are scraping by at the end of the year could safely pin part of the blame on inflation. Higher prices have made it easier than ever to miss that other sneaky cause of overspending: lifestyle creep. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?
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We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?

Lots of people log in to social media every day. Fewer and fewer are actually posting.Isaiah Hug spends roughly two hours a day scrolling through Instagram, but his last post to his main feed was over a year ago. He occasionally posts stories, which vanish after 24 hours.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?
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We Aren’t Posting on Social Media as Much Anymore. Will We Ever?

Lots of people log in to social media every day. Fewer and fewer are actually posting.Isaiah Hug spends roughly two hours a day scrolling through Instagram, but his last post to his main feed was over a year ago. He occasionally posts stories, which vanish after 24 hours.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
The Fight Over Apple’s iMessage and Those Green Bubbles
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The Fight Over Apple’s iMessage and Those Green Bubbles

Listen to article(2 minutes)After nearly 10 years, my husband, Will, finally joined the Nguyen family iMessage chat.Will, a staunch Android user, infiltrated the group earlier this month using Beeper Mini. This fresh app promises the previously impossible: turning green-bubble Android texts into blue-bubble iMessages. Unlike other workarounds, Beeper Mini initially didn’t rely on a server, a Mac or an iPhone.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
It Isn’t Just About Bonding. Giving Up Paternity Leave Costs You Money.
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It Isn’t Just About Bonding. Giving Up Paternity Leave Costs You Money.

Listen to article(2 minutes)A lot of new fathers are leaving money on the table—their paid paternity leave.Expanded access to parental leave is among the biggest changes to workplaces in recent years, and fathers have been prime beneficiaries. Yet plenty of dads still see it as a career risk. They worry their commitment to their jobs will be questioned or they will face ridicule (Exhibit A: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg). Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
It Isn’t Just About Bonding. Giving Up Paternity Leave Costs You Money.
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It Isn’t Just About Bonding. Giving Up Paternity Leave Costs You Money.

Listen to article(2 minutes)A lot of new fathers are leaving money on the table—their paid paternity leave.Expanded access to parental leave is among the biggest changes to workplaces in recent years, and fathers have been prime beneficiaries. Yet plenty of dads still see it as a career risk. They worry their commitment to their jobs will be questioned or they will face ridicule (Exhibit A: U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg). Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8