financial planning

Despite the punishing headwinds, the county balanced its $48-billion recommended budget for the upcoming fiscal year, which officials credit to cautious financial planning.

For low-income individuals, The Foundation for Financial Planning offers pro bono financial planning services.

NerdWallet, a personal finance website, also recommends reaching out to the Financial Planning Association and the Financial Counseling Association of America for other affordable financial tools.

It's called PROFITTE, and it’s a financial planning and investing app, explicitly for women, offering a suite of personal finance calculators and investment tools for the common girlbosses: retirement and tax deduction calculators, automated investing tools, rigorous spreadsheets demonstrating how much more you'd truly be earning for your time by leaning into your innate homemaker within, leaving behind the frankly oppressive expectation that you participating in society and the flow of commerce.

The belt-tightening plan, effective immediately, comes just months after an internal financial planning task force said in November that USC’s $158-million budget deficit required various “cost containment measures.”