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BUILD, Filing Your Taxes, LAUNCH, Urban Money 101

Urban Money 101: File Your Taxes or Else

Learning how to file correctly is important. Not filing properly can cost you thousands of dollars and place your bank accounts and property at risk.

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BUILD, Filing Your Taxes, LAUNCH, Urban Money 101

Urban Money 101: Anatomy of a W-2 Form

A W-2 form is also known as the Wage and Tax Statement. It is a document provided by employers at the end of each tax year summarizing the employee’s earnings.

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BUILD, Filing Your Taxes, LAUNCH, Urban Money 101

Urban Money 101: Anatomy of a W-9 Form

A W-9 form is an IRS tax form used for providing your taxpayer identification number (TIN) to entities that will be making certain types of payments to you, such as interest.

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BUILD, Filing Your Taxes, LAUNCH, Urban Money 101

Urban Money 101: How Do I File My Taxes?

Filing federal and state taxes is a legal requirement for taxpayers, but learning how to file correctly is important. It can prevent you from paying penalties for underreporting income or not reporting it at all.

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Budget & Cash Envelopes, BUILD, LAUNCH, STACK

Cancel Culture: Subscription Detox

It usually starts with one harmless click — a “free trial” for a streaming service, a $9.99-a-month wellness app, a subscription box that promises to make your life easier. You tell yourself you’ll cancel before it renews. But you don’t.

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Budget & Cash Envelopes, BUILD, LAUNCH

Vintage Eats, Modern Heat

There’s a quiet poetry in the meals that came out of hard times — vintage dishes born not from abundance, but from imagination. During the Depression, home cooks learned to stretch, reinvent, and elevate the simplest of ingredients.

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Budget, Cash Envelopes, LAUNCH, Urban Money 101

Urban Money 101: Using Cash Envelope Budgeting

Using cash envelopes is a straightforward method for managing your finances by allocating physical cash into different spending categories.

So how do you get started?

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Budget & Cash Envelopes, BUILD, LAUNCH

Hidden College Charges That’ll Gut Your Wallet — and How to Fight Back

You’ve fought through applications, essays, and FAFSA. You’ve earned your spot. But now, just when you think the hard part is over, the college tuition bill hits—and suddenly, you’re staring at thousands of dollars in mysterious and expensive college charges.

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Budget & Cash Envelopes, LAUNCH

Lease Traps 101: Private Student Housing

Private student housing developments market themselves with shiny gyms, rooftop pools, and staged apartments. But when you sign that lease, you’re stepping into a contract built to protect them, not you.

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Budget & Cash Envelopes, LAUNCH

Outsmarting Your Campus Dining Plan

Your campus dining plan is pitched as a convenient, no-fuss way to guarantee your meals without cooking or grocery shopping. But they’re a prime student money trap.

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