Credit 101: Helping Make Sense of Good Credit

Credit 101 is a part of the Future Cents project.  Teens and adults are invited to learn more about establishing and repairing their credit score.  It is all about the number!  Learn what the number is.  How to protect your score and more!  Credit 101 will be held at the Cultural Center Boardroom next door [...]

Raising Money Smart Kids

How well adjusted are our children when it comes to money?  Statistics show that young people are buying more and accumulating more debt than ever before.  Future Cents is a grant funded project that will help youth and their parents learn budgeting, checking, saving, investing and more.  The goal of Future Cents is to help [...]

Electronic Tax Filing at Greensboro Public Library Locations

If you have a Greensboro Public Library card and want to file your taxes online, you can do so at any library location.  Websites which provide free or low-cost filing for NC returns and IRS returns are shown with requirements and links at the N. C. Department of Revenue e-file requirements link.  Websites which provide [...]

NC Tax Form Access at Greensboro Public Library Locations

In an effort to reduce cost and encourage electronic filing, the N. C. Department of Revenue will not provide tax forms or instruction booklets to libraries and post offices for give-away to the public this year.  Taxpayers with Greensboro Public Library cards can sign on to a public-use computer at a library location and download and [...]

IRS Tax Forms at Greensboro Public Library locations

IRS tax forms are available at Greensboro Public Library locations in a number of ways.  Free copies of the following forms can be picked up at any library location:  1040 forms, 1040 instructions, 1040A forms, 1040A instructions, 1040EZ forms, 1040EZ instructions, schedule 2441, schedule 2441 instructions, schedule R, schedule R instructions, schedule A, schedule B, [...]

N.C. Unemployment Down Slightly in November

The News & Record reported today that North Carolina’s jobless rate dropped .1% in November to 10.8%. The same report includes a forecast from UNC-Charlotte economist John Connaughton.  Unfortunately, Connaughton is decidedly downbeat, for he sees little likelihood of a vigorous economic expansion in the near term owing especially to damage suffered by the financial sector and the resulting credit squeeze. Please remember to [...]

NC Unemployment Down a Bit; Other States See Record Highs

The News and Record reports today that North Carolina’s unemployment rate in August was at 10.8%, a tenth of a percent lower than July’s statewide rate. Meanwhile, CNBC reports that unemployment rates in some other states are reaching record highs:  these were California (12.2%), Nevada (13.2%), and Rhode Island (12.8%).  Michigan continues to lead the nation [...]

Growth Through Raving Fans Series Attracts Local Businesses

In early 2009 the concept for a One City One Book project for Greensboro businesses was created and the One Community, Your Business project was born.  The book chosen for the inaugural business reading project is Raving Fans.  This timely and relevant book allows business owners and key personnel to consider a new way of doing [...]

Unemployment Up, But Job Losses Decline

This is just a brief post to note that nationwide unemployment rose to 9.7% in August, up from 9.4% in July. However, monthly job losses declined to 216,000, the lowest of the year.   Unemployment is still expected to reach at least 10% before it begins to decline. If you’re looking for work, please remember Greensboro Public Library’s [...]

I Guess When “Doctor Doom” Says It’s Over, It’s Over . . . Opps, Wait a Minute!

Well, Nouriel Roubini, AKA “Doctor Doom,” one of the few economists to predict the financial crisis of 2007-09, really had folks on Wall Street going today when he seemed at last to be sounding a note of optimism.  Earlier, CNBC reported Roubini had said we would begin to emerge from the recession by the end of this year and partly credited [...]