Archives of Money

A Look at Period Poverty

A Lifetime of Bleeding: How much do women spend on period products? We calculated the cost of having a period at approximately $7,500, spent on organic pads, tampons and pantyliners, over a lifetime of menstruating — not adjusted for price inflation throughout the 30 to 40 years a woman will spend menstruating; estimates from other […]
4 months ago

Get Your Finances in Order: 7 tips from an economist

Dr. Rebecca Summary is a professor emeritus at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. She taught principles of macroeconomics, law and economics, and economic problems and policies, among other courses, for 38 years. She says she is fascinated by the ways psychology and human behavior affect the economy and is passionate about the ways […]
3 years ago