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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Regroup and Recommit
As the New Year approaches, many of us are reevaluating our budgets, looking at our goals from the past year, and setting resolutions for the year to come. Maybe you…
Stretch Your Food Dollar: Grown Up Fudge
If you're in a rush to get some last minute gifts together, either for a friend or a coworker, or you just want to get down with your bad self…
How’s Your Holiday Budget Looking?
We're smack dab in the middle of the holiday season. How are you doing on your spending goals? I've never been one to go on a huge spending spree…
Young People Hardest Hit By Unemployment
I was astounded last week to read statistics that show that people ages 16-24 have been the hardest hit by unemployment during the recession. Although a slew of economists are…
Could an HIV Vaccine Lower the Economic Cost of AIDS?
Promising news of an HIV vaccine this week has left many in the public health and HIV communities feeling hopeful. The latest study shows a 31% reduction in HIV transmission…
Stretch Your Food Dollar: Winter Squash
Fall is officially here, and not just because it's the end of September and the calendar says so. I know it's Fall because winter squash is starting to show…
A Brief History of Women Entrepreneurs
I recently finished reading We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, by Cokie Roberts. The book is about the changing roles of women in American society. Roberts examines women's participation in a…
Stretch Your Food Dollar: Pork Ain’t Just in Washington
OK, so that was a cheap shot at the members of Congress who are spinning their wills on the health care reform debate. I don't know why we can bail…
Transgender in the Workplace
Congress will be voting on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) soon, and if an editorial in this weekend's New York Times is any indication, and inclusive version of the ENDA…
Steps For Cleaning Up Your Online Persona
Last week I mentioned that your online persona could be costing you jobs. Everything that we say or do online is available for anyone to see, so it's very important…