>>Could you survive on $7.25 an hour? That’s $15,000 a year to afford your car insurance, health insurance, utilities, and rent—not to mention groceries, gas,...[Read More]
Family Issues
Articles >>2013 wasn’t a great year for North Carolina’s budgets. Between state lawmakers championing cutbacks and the federal government shutting down, funding for many programs fell...[Read More]
>>Shopping on a budget means that I bargain hunt. Sometimes I take more joy in the price I paid for an item than in using...[Read More]
BY MARION JOHNSON, Sanford School, Duke University Picture a small office with three employees: Jake, a white man; Anita, a Latina woman whose husband lost his...[Read More]
>>BY JENNIFER FERRIS Every year we pause on >>November 11 to remember the brave men and women who protect our country and our...[Read More]
>>Life got a lot bleaker for 1.7 million North Carolinians last week. That’s how many people in our state saw cuts to their food budgets...[Read More]
>>Ever since the recession, more women participate in the workforce than ever before. In fact, women now >>make up almost half of American workers (49.9%),...[Read More]
>>BY JENNIFER FERRIS A two-week partial shutdown of the United States government has taken a toll greater than anticipated on women. While politicians postured in...[Read More]
>>BY JENNIFER FERRIS My Gmail trash folder contains more than 1,500 messages from the last four weeks. Scanning the subject lines and senders I see...[Read More]
>>Credit card debt, mortgages, auto loans; sometimes life seems like a never-ending nightmare of owing people money. We learn early. As a 9-year-old, I remember...[Read More]