Grandparents become mom and dad when parents deploy with military
McClatchy Newspapers
4/27/2009, by Debbie Cafazzo
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - "Good. Nothing. Good." The stateside half of a telephone conversation between 6-year-old Emma Tackett and her mom, Jeannette Tackett, who is in Iraq with the Washington National Guard, leaves much to the imagination. Like many kids her age, Emma is a girl of few words ...
12-year-old boy tackling double major — physics and math — at Florida university
McClatchy Newspapers
4/23/2009, by Hannah Sampson
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - It's Friday at Florida International University, which means a few things for Sky Choi: physics lab, Calculus II _ and a trip to the game room. For this 12-year-old, the youngest student ever to attend FIU, college is a long-awaited challenge and a daily ...
For needy, cell phones can be free
McClatchy Newspapers
4/22/2009, by John Murawski
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - An obscure federal program that helps poor people pay for phone service is entering the wireless era. Cell phone companies are offering the needy a bargain that the rest of us can only dream about: free service. TracFone, a national wireless phone service company, this ...
Laid-off alumni asking alma maters for help
McClatchy Newspapers
4/21/2009, by Scott Nishimura
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - More alumni are returning to colleges this year _ not just to visit, but to seek career help. Schools are offering their career centers for assessments, launching support groups, running more networking receptions and calling on employed alumni for help.
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Seniors make job training work for them
McClatchy Newspapers
4/21/2009, by Bob Moos
The Dallas Morning News (MCT) - This recession has beaten down many older workers and retirees. Sylvester Barron picks them up, dusts them off and helps the unemployed find jobs. "Once people feel as though they're needed again, it's a whole new day," he said. "They're no longer sitting at home in ...
Newly unemployed, men redefine breadwinning roles
McClatchy Newspapers
4/21/2009, by Erin Chan Ding
Detroit Free Press (MCT) - Sometimes in the offices of Brides-to-Be Shows, where lollipops peek out from a pink basket and a heart-shaped photo hangs on the refrigerator, Don Evanowski forgets. He acts as if he and Cyd LaChiusa Evanowski are just husband and wife. But then they have a disagreement. ...
Economy leaves college applicants cautious
McClatchy Newspapers
4/20/2009, by Patricia Alex
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT) - Take a bad economy, mix in a record number of high school graduates and you've got one unpredictable and particularly maddening season in college admissions. "The historical trend lines mean nothing," said Jonathan Wexler, admissions director at Fairleigh ...
More fathers choosing to stay home with kids after job losses
Maryknoll Office of Global Concerns
4/20/2009, by Carlos Alcalá
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Instead of sitting in traffic for a long drive to his office in Concord, Calif., on a recent Monday, Chuck Hammond sat at his kitchen table in Roseville, Calif., cutting the rind off little pieces of orange and feeding them to his 1-year-old daughter, Reagan. These ...
Communication is key for couples in trying financial times
McClatchy Newspapers
4/20/2009, by Jessica Yadegaran
Contra Costa Times (MCT) - Before the recession and before they had kids, Ben and Andrea Bidwell loved going out to dinner and catching a show in San Francisco. They had dual, full-time incomes, and the economy had yet to tank. Now, three years later, their lifestyle has shifted a bit. "Our idea of ...
Multi-tasker mom pens a manual
McClatchy Newspapers
4/15/2009, by Jennifer Rothacker
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) - Sara Ellington may seem like your typical stay-at-home mom: driving carpools, volunteering at her kids' school, worrying about what to serve for dinner. Except this Mountain Island Lake, N.C., mom has authored two books. The second, which hit bookstores last week, ...
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