$5,000 Invested in This ETF Could Send Your Kids to College

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$5,000 Invested in This ETF Could Send Your Kids to College

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College is not cheap, as Iʻm experiencing firsthand at the moment. But one thing that has made the payments a lot more manageable is the fact that I started investing a long time ago, specifically for...

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·2022-01-02
Valuable information, Thank you. Happy New Year 2022.
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