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Financial Literacy Chapter 1.

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Career   A course of action in life that generally provides an income.  
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Earned income   Money received for work done. May include salary, wages, tips, professional fees, etc.  
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Human Capital/Resourses   The health, education, experience, training, skills, and values of people. Also known as human resources.  
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Skillset   Your skills and what you can do the best.  
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Job   A piece of work done on order or at an agreed rate. Also a paid system of regular employment.  
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Human Capital Investment   Investment of time, effort, and resources in education and training to increase one's knowledge, skill, health, etc., or to develop those assets into another.  
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Income   Payments earned by households for selling or renting their productive resources. May include salaries, wages, interest, and dividends.  
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Labor   The quality and quantity of human effort available to produce goods  
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Gross Income   Wages or salary before deductions for taxes and other purposes  
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Net Income   Wages or salary after taxes  
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Medicare   Federal government program, financed deductions from wages, that pays for certain health care expenses for older citizens  
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Social Security   A federal government program that provides retirement, survivor’s, and disability benefits, funded by a tax on income, which appears on workers’ pay stubs as a deduction labeled FICA (for Federal Insurance Contributions Act, the enabling legislation)  
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Goal   A statement about what a person wants to be, do, or have accomplished by taking certain steps; provides direction to a plan of action  
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Goal Setting   The process used to determine what an individual wants to be, do, or have (i.e., what a person wants to accomplish)  
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Income   Money earned from investments and employment  
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Variable income   Income that varies from week to month or from month to month  
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Fixed income   Income that stays the same from week to week or month to month  
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Expenses   The cost of goods and services, including those that are fixed (such as rent and auto loan payments) and those that are variable (such as food, clothing, and entertainment)  
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Fixed Expense   Expenditures that are the same from week to week or month to month, such as mortgage or rent payments and car payments.  
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Variable Expense   Expenditures that change from week to week or month to month. For food, clothing, recreation and entertainment, for example  
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