{"id":475941,"date":"2026-02-18T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475941\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:04:36","slug":"are-you-up-for-a-savings-challenge-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/475941\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you up for a savings challenge this year?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:CNN Business;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"CNN Business\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"52\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/366548c0-095d-11ee-bfd8-b39ec3295050.png\"\/><\/a>Tue, February 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM UTC<img alt=\"New year, new (financial) you. - ridvan_celik\/E+\/Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/54bb8e6b26531442ce10f8562254374b.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>New year, new (financial) you. &#8211; ridvan_celik\/E+\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Improving your personal finances is always a good idea, albeit a difficult task. And in an uncertain economy, shoring up some extra savings is one smart way to deal with the unexpected and give yourself options.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why CNN is excited to announce its 1% savings challenge that will kick off a bit later this year.<\/p>\n<p>For more CNN news and newsletters create an account at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/account\/register?source=external-feeds_iluminar&amp;cid=external-feeds_iluminar_yahoo&amp;registration_email_campaign=https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:CNN.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">CNN.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, February 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM UTC New year, new (financial) you. &#8211; ridvan_celik\/E+\/Getty Images Improving your&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,147,45685,530,163631],"class_list":{"0":"post-475941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-personal-finance","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-personal-finance","10":"tag-personal-finances","11":"tag-personalfinance","12":"tag-savings-challenge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}