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Like the rare teacher who can make a dry subject come alive, Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck (now in its third printing) presents a conversation between the author and you, a time-starved yet curious reader with an occasional interruption from a commission-obsessed salesman. Don't let the easy reading style fool you. Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck is also your trusted reference as you confidently journey down the path from income to wealth. With honesty, humor, and a touch of sarcasm, Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck will motivate and empower you with the tools necessary to not only survive, but also thrive, on the very income you earn today.

Best Book Award Finalist!

Eric Hoffer Award Finalist!

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. The Basics: Tell Your Money to Go to Work
Chapter 2. Don t Be Cheap, Be Fiscally Responsible
Chapter 3. Debt Sucks (Your Money Away)
Chapter 4. Taxes on Your Taxes Are Taxing (Yet Real)
Chapter 5. Use Protection: Insurance
Chapter 6. Take Advantage of Your Benefits(or You re Being Kind of Dumb)
Chapter 7. Ira Roth Is Not Your Congressman Do-It-Yourself Retirement Planning
Chapter 8. Maximize Your (Investing) Performance
Chapter 9. Death Happens: Estate Planning
Chapter 10. Take This Book and Use It!
Amazingly Comprehensive Glossary of (Mostly) Important Terms

Reader Testimonials

Paul Masi, Event Technology

It's true! I am no longer living to paycheck to paycheck thanks to the insight gained from reading Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck! I am much more aware of how I spend money but more importantly, how I save it. Nothing is more satisfying than watching my money grow. This book really changed my life!

Debby Slocum, Compensation Professional
In one month, I've already been able to invest in mutual funds, increase my 401(k), cut down bad debt and work on getting term life insurance set up all at a minimal 'net' impact to me. I would not have felt empowered to do all this without learning the principles in Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck. It has completely changed my life and outlook on saving and finances.Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck is amazing. I would recommend it to anyone.

Expert Endorsements

Arthur F. von der Linden, Jr., CFP,® Founder and Principal, Wingate Financial Group, Inc.
The most straightforward financial planning book you'll find. Understandable by the financially clueless yet extremely beneficial to those who have already begun. Unique conversational format. Unbelievable glossary!

B. Joseph Pine II, co-author, The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage
I wish I could've read Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck when I was first starting out. But I can't wait to share Michael Rubin's wisdom with my daughters as soon as they join the workforce themselves. If you have any doubts whether this concise, cogent, and compelling book is for you (or your children), just read the preface. Now.

Generation X Finance blog:
If there is a book that highlights the importance of financial planning at any age, and makes it accessible to those who may not have many resources to plan with, this is it..
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Live Long Live Rich is the first guide for people who want to know how to invest to create retirement income. Retirement is a new chapter in your life and should be a time free from worry. Live Long Live Rich provides the tools and practical advice you'll need to enjoy this time of your life like no other. Every word of this book was written with that in mind.

For 20 years H Craig Rappaport has been helping individuals with retirement income planning. Rappaport is a graduate of Northeastern University with a degree in Finance and an Accredited Wealth Management Advisor from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School. He is a Financial Planning Specialist, A Guided Portfolio Manager, and a National Football League Players Association Advisor.

Specializing in retirement, Rappaport has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Fox News, CNN Headline News, The Dow Jones News Service as well as many television shows, magazines and newspapers. Rappaport's unique ability to explain complex investments in simple, easy to understand terms has kept the media coming back time and time again and is why he has written Live Long Live Rich, which is quickly becoming the investors' "Income Bible".

The free software download has received numerous awards; PC World and Readers Digest included it in their list of "Best Retirement Planning Software" Family PC Magazine calls it "a top notch product" Bloomberg Personal Finance says it's an "easy to use retirement planner" Barrons refers to it as "a good simple tool" Life Insurance Magazine describes it as "fast and intuitive - Retirement Planner is a snap to use and may represent the leading edge in a new kind of illustrative software. The user will get everything right away.".
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A dollar is a dollar--or so most of us believe Indeed, it is part of the ideology of our time that money is a single, impersonal instrument that impoverishes social life by reducing social relations to cold, hard cash. Arguing against this conventional wisdom, Viviana Zelizer, a distinguished social scientist and prize-winning author, shows how people have invented their own forms of currency, earmarking money in ways that baffle market theorists, incorporating funds into webs of friendship and family relations, and otherwise varying the process by which spending and saving takes place.

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"Paycheck 911: Don't Panic . . . Power Your Job Search! is the right book at the right time for jobless worthies who don't understand where they went wrong and why job search is so long. Authors Joe Turner and Sue Swenson do get it, solving that mystery for you in a fresh and frank guidebook of what really works today and what doesn't. They're good. If you're tired of figuratively standing in the no-job rain at midnight, race to this five-star book for immediate help!" Joyce Lain Kennedy, Nationally syndicated Tribune Media Services careers columnist and author of Résumés For Dummies.
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This book is to be used as a starting point for children and parents The focus is on the unmarried dependent child (with no dependents of their own) who has a yearly income that ranges from $1.00 to the amount of the single standard deduction allowed by the IRS for the current tax year ($5,350 in 2007). This book can also provide limited guidance for children with incomes outside of this range, introducing them to basic topics.

Major Topics include:
1) Money Management: Appreciate the benefits of a Roth IRA
2) Career Skills: Identify different types of child employment
3) New Ideas: Discover different ways parents can employ their children
4) Special Details: Learn how parents can issue Forms W-2 for their child
5) Introduction to Taxes: Basic tax concepts for children with low earned income
6) Powerful Knowledge: Understand rules for children to contribute to a Roth IRA..
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Electronic mechanic Jennings wakes up with no memory of the past two years of his life -- except that he had agreed to work for Retherick Construction.Payment for his services, now completed, is a bag of seemingly worthless objects: a code key, a ticket stub, a receipt, a length of wire, half a poker chip, a piece of green cloth and a bus token.But when he is confronted by the Special Police, who seem to be investigating Retherick for their own reasons, Jennings finds himself running for his life, realizing that the "worthless" objects are the key to unlocking his recent past, and ensuring that he has a future.

Viewed by many as the greatest science fiction writer on any planet, Philip K. Dick has written some of the most intriguing, original and thought-provoking fiction of our time. He has been described by The Wall Street Journal as the man who, "More than anyone else…really puts you inside people’s minds."

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Do you want a career in your family's business? This guide shows young people with a family business how to:

Take charge of their education, career, and life for success and happiness.
Avoid entitlement, lack of direction, and feeling stuck.
Earn credibility and marketability in the family business.
Face family expectations and preserve relationships..
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