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  • School Bus Strike In NYC Enters 2nd Day

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 17
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    A standoff between striking school bus drivers looking for job protections and a city administration that says they just can't have them has the potential to go on for some time, observers said, as parents struggle to get to work on time while scramb...

  • California Facing Drought of Children

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 16
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    California's latest drought? Children. The state, according to a new report, is producing too few children to supply the workers and taxpayers it will need tomorrow. This deficit, coupled with California's fast-growing crop of aging retirees, bodes i...

  • Study: Recession Babies May Be More Likely to be Teen Delinquents

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • January 3
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    The state of the economy during a child's infancy may have an influence on their level of substance abuse and delinquent behavior later in life.
    Researchers discovered that there was a strong correlation children born during high unemployment rates ...

  • Pennsylvania High School Puts Itself Up For Sale On Ebay

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • July 2, 2012
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    Forget magazine drives and candy sales. A cash-strapped high school near Philadelphia hopes to raise money by auctioning itself on eBay.
    Officials at The Learning Center in Langhorne, Pa., are seeking bids starting around $600,000 to offset steep bu...

  • Babysitting Costs Dent Wallet, Especially in New York

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • June 13, 2012
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    Parents in New York City are dishing out the highest hourly rate for babysitters in the country, at $15.50 an hour. But even in lower-cost cities such as St. Louis, date night can cost nearly $10 an hour just for someone to watch the kids.
    UrbanSitt...

  • Report Offers A Bit Of Good News For American Moms

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • May 10, 2012
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    There is a little good news for mothers in the United States. The U.S. has moved up six places -- from 31st to 25th -- in the annual Save The Children State of the World's Mothers report.
    That puts the U.S. right between Belarus and the Czech Republ...

  • Study: Retirement Plans of African-Americans and Hispanics Hit Especially Hard During Tough Economy

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • April 3, 2012
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    Continued economic uncertainty has led all workers to dip into their retirement savings, but minorities have been the hardest hit, according to a new study from Ariel Education Initiative and Aon Hewitt.  Compared to their Asian and white counte...

  • Amid Recession, An Uptick in Wives Outearning Their Husbands

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • March 7, 2012
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    Since her husband was laid off last fall, Julee Schirmacher has found herself in a spot that has become familiar to many families over the past few years. She works full-time for a marketing company and, for now, her husband stays...

  • Report: Black Families Greatly Overrepresented Among U.S. Homeless

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • March 6, 2012
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    In 2010, one out of every 141 black family members stayed in a homeless shelter, a rate seven times higher than members of white families, according to "Intergenerational Disparities Experienced by Homeless Black Families," a report released by the I...

  • Baby Boomers More Likely to Retire Single

    • Posted by Mommy Brown
    • March 6, 2012
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    A new study sees tough times ahead for baby boomers who retire single, or who become single in retirement. The report, "Single in Retirement," released today by the BMO Retirement Institute, finds singles face "a unique set of financial, emotional an...