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Countdown to Tax Day: WalletHub's 2015 Expert Tips

Apr 2, 2015

Wallet Hub - With Tax Day fast approaching, the 28% of Americans who wait until April to file their returns have a lot of catching up to do. Taxes are complex under normal circumstances, and that's only intensified when you add a time crunch to the mix. With that in mind, we've compiled a list of last-minute tax tips and reminders that will hopefully satisfy any questions that you have as well as keep you on task through mid-month.

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Texas Tech Students Map Food Insecure Areas of Bangladesh

Apr 2, 2015

Carrie Stokes, USAID GeoCenter Director, hosts Student Mapathon.

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Half of Americans will see their standard of living fall in retirement

Apr 2, 2015

Yahoo! Finance - With roughly 10,000 boomers retiring every days, the U.S. retirement crisis is no longer an easily dismissed distant concern. Whether we choose to pay attention or not, American workers' savings shortfall is a slow-moving hurricane that's going to hit many of us where we live.

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Grim Givers: How Thoughts of Death Open Wallets

Apr 2, 2015

New York Observer - Can thinking about death make us more generous charitable givers? Studies seem to suggest it does. One found that just standing near a funeral home increased people's philanthropic intentions. And, remember Ebenezer Scrooge? After his encounter with a ghost—who points a bony finger at a tomb on which his name is engraved—Dickens' famous miser becomes the soul of generosity.

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