Lifestyle and Budget

Drivers are paying less at the pump this week as investors turn bearish on crude oil futures.

Don't be cooped up in a cubicle. Stretch your legs in one of these growing outdoor jobs.

Losing your wallet can be devastating to your finances, identity and emotions. Here's how to lessen the blow if you do happy to lost your wallet. 

Like cleansing your body with a special diet, purge your debt and start saving with a budget.

Many of us don’t have the time, knowledge and emotional intolerance to play financial advisor, but thankfully there are professionals who can help create a savings and investing plan. But how do you pick the best one?

We’ve all made mistakes when it comes to managing our money, but our financial future is our top worry.

Money blunders can wear on your head as much as your wallet. Here's how to get back on track.

Co-workers tend to look at me as someone who dives head-first into projects and generally meets deadlines ahead of schedule, so they don't realize my hidden secret.I'm a recovering procrastinator.

How do parents stop children from making the same financial mistakes they did?

A study finds many teens expect to rely on money from mom and dad until their mid-20s. Is there any way to help them become independent more quickly?

Hurricanes can whip up steep home insurance deductibles. Superstorm Sandy may be different.

You can't control hurricanes, but you can minimize losses and save on insurance premiums.

Opinion: Are colleges – some of which offer degrees seen to have little real-world use, and others that sport failing business models -- exacerbating income inequality? Possibly.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan to make college more affordable and ease the burden of student debt could easily end up costing more than her proposed $350 billion.

Hillary Rodham Clinton's plan to make college more affordable and ease the burden of student debt could easily end up costing more than her proposed $350 billion.

As a dirt-poor rookie boxer in the southern Philippines, Manny Pacquiao started his phenomenal rise to global fame not as the Pacman, as he is sometimes called, but as "Kid Kulafu." That moniker — the title of a new local film about Pacquiao's childhood — was taken from the label of a cheap wine whose empty bottles he returned for recycling to earn money to help his family.

The Australian government has ramped up pressure on parents who oppose vaccination by threatening to withhold child care and other payments from families that fail to immunize their children.

A Pennsylvania judge is being asked to make trustees account for money spent from a $210 million trust controlled by the late billionaire publisher of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

Fast food workers from around the country will gather this weekend in Chicago to discuss how to escalate their campaign for higher wages and union representation.

An international study says the United States runs in the middle of the pack when it comes to the financial knowledge and skills of 15-year-old boys and girls.