Doyle Williams helps make sense of back-to-school budgeting and saving
Doyle Williams, EVP at Country Financial understands that this time of year can be extremely tricky when it comes to sticking to a budget. With the cost of school supplies increasing by as much as 88 percent, it is easy to accidentally overspend.
Most kids want new items to celebrate the new year, but it can take a huge bite out of a family budget.
A sobering statistic is that a family of five living at the poverty level guideline of $28,410 would spend as much as 10 percent of their income sending three children to school.
Older kids are faced with additional financial burdens. Student loans and soaring college fees. According to a recent study from the Country Financial Security Index, more than 35 percent of millennials are still living at home and rely on their parents for additional financial assistance.
Financial Expert Doyle Williams, EVP at Country Financial spoke with Michelle Tompkins for TheCelebrityCafe.com about way families can budget for back-to-school, offered tips to avoid overspending, gave tips on financial lessons parents can teach kids of all ages to learn the value of money, what people can do to help protect their kids while they are in college, reminded parents not to forget about saving for retirement and more.
See this helpful interview here:
Doyle Williams and more information on Country Financial may be found at TakeSimpleSteps.com here.
Michelle Tompkins http://www.mediamichelle917.com Michelle Tompkins is an award-winning media, PR and crisis communications professional with more than ten years experience with coverage in virtually every traditional and new media outlet. She is currently a communications and media strategist and writer, as well as the author of College Prowler: Guidebook for Columbia University. She served as the Media Relations Manager for the Girl Scouts of the USA where she managed all media and talking points, created social media strategy, trained executives and donors and served as the organization’s primary spokesperson, participating in daily interviews with local, regional, and national media outlets. She managed the media for the Let Me Know internet safety and Cyberbullying prevention campaign with Microsoft, as well as Girl Scouts’ centennial Year of the Girl To Get Her There celebration in 2012, which yielded more than 800 million earned media impressions. In addition to her extensive media experience, Michelle worked as a talent agent in Los Angeles, California, as well contracting as a digital content developer and her writing has appeared in newspapers and online. She is passionate about television, theater, classic movies, all things food and in-home entertaining. While she has lived and worked in NYC for more than a decade, she is from suburban Sacramento and gets back there often to watch the San Francisco Giants on TV with her family.