America Saves Week: Savings Strategies
Kathy Sweedler, Extension Educator, Consumer Economics Champaign/Ford/Iroquois/Vermilion Unit, University of Illinois Extension
The Afternoon Magazine
2009 Personal Income Taxes: Talk with the Tax Experts
With Marty Verdick, CPA (Managing Director, Tax Services, RSM McGladrey, Inc.), and , and John Breen (Director, Tax Services, RSM McGladrey, Inc.)
Urbana’s Market at the Square Strategic Planning Initiative - Public Input Desired
With Lisa Bralts (Economic Development Specialist and Director, Market at the Square, City of Urbana)
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Financial Health in Tough Times
With Mitchell Allen (Founder, President, and Chairman of Debt Education and Founder, President, and Chairman of Debt Education and Certification Foundation; author of A Survival Guide to Debt: How to Overcome Tough Times & Restore Your Financial Health), and , and Valerie McWilliams, J.D. (Managing Attorney, Champaign Office, Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation), and , and Kathy Sweedler (Consumer and Family Economics Educator, University of Illinois Extension), and , and U of I Extension Tough Times website (http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/toughtimes/)
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Consumer issues,
Personal Finance
Helping Put Food on the Table: Food Banks, Food Pantries, Shelter, and Soup Kitchens in East Central
With Jim Hires (Executive Director, Eastern Illinois Food Bank), and , and Scott Olthoff (Financial Counselor, Salt & Light Ministry), and , and Marie Brown (Salt & Light Ministry Volunteer and Recipient)
Inside Assisted Living: The Search for Home
With J. Kevin Eckert, Ph.D. (Professor of Sociology/Anthropology; Director, Center for Aging Studies; Dean, Erickson School of Aginng Studies, University of Maryland), and , and Ann Christine Frankowski, Ph.D. (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Athropology and Sociology; a Senior Research Associate with the Center for Aging Studies at the Erickson School, University of Maryland)
Buyology: Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
With Martin Lindstrom (Marketing Consultant)
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Categories:
Business,
Consumer issues
Getting Through Tough Financial Times: Help from the University of Illinois Extension
With Lois Smith (University of Illinois Extension Consumer and Family Economics Educator, Edwardsville)
Categories:
Consumer issues
Taxes 2008
With Marty Verdick, CPA (Managing Director, Tax Services, RSM McGladrey, Inc.), and , and John Breen (Director, Tax Services, RSM McGladrey, Inc.)
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest To End Famine
With Gary Paul Nabhan, Ph.D. (Research Social Scientist, Southwest Center, University of Arizona; Founder/Facilitator, Renewing America's Food Traditions Initiative, Slow Food USA; Ethnobiologist; and Conservationist)