Family Economics
Budgeting
Financial Calculators
- Basic Family Budget Calculator
- Financial Calculators from the Choose to Save® Education Program
- Financial Calculators
Worksheets
Publications
- Family Financial Fitness Exercises (bilingual publications)
- The Value of Paying Creditors (PDF)
- Stretching Your Family’s Budget (PDF)
- The Importance of Saving Money (PDF)
- Setting a Budget (PDF)
- The Value of Paying Creditors (PDF)
- Bouncing Back When Your Income Drops is a publication series that includes an overview and ten publications on specific topics related to the financial and family impacts of job loss, lay-offs, or other drops in family income. Each publication in the series is four pages in length. The series was produced and published by the College of Agricultural Sciences and Cooperative Extension at Pennsylvania State University.
- Overview
- Making Sense of My Losses
- Working Together as a Family
- Checking Financial Resources
- Setting Spending Priorities
- Paying Creditors and Maintaining Your Financial Reputation
- Cutting Corners and Economizing
- Using Community Resources
- Finding New Employment
- Getting the Health Care You Need
- Protecting Retirement Benefits
- Overview
- Family Living Budgets [L-5265] (PDF)
- The
Texas Family Guide to Personal Money Management (Texas State Securities Board) – Note:
click the link "Texas Family Guide" on the web page to access the publication PDF.
Research and Trends
- Cost of Food at Home at Four Levels (Official USDA Food Plans)
- Expenditures on Children by Families (USDA)
- Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families
- Food Stamp Program Eligibility Guidelines
- Making It: What It Really Takes to Live in Texas (Center for Public Policy Priorities, 2001)
- Texas Poverty 101 (PDF) (Center for Public Policy Priorities)
- Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
- Consumer Expenditure Survey
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Updated: 21 April, 2008
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