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		<title>Presentless Christmas brings more time with family and fewer holiday bills</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nedra Pickler</dc:creator>
		
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Buying into a Christmas without presents
WASHINGTON — I&#8217;m not a Scrooge, really. I embrace almost all of Christmas. Except for one time-honored tradition that brings so much stress and expense that eliminating it has made the holiday even more magical.
Join me — and others who are signing on in times of tight budgets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia officials expand child custody leniency program as more parents lose jobs</title>
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Georgia&#8217;s child custody employment program expands

ATLANTA — Already a father of two in 2006, Martez Fitzpatrick figured supporting a third child wouldn&#8217;t much strain his budget.
Then the little girl&#8217;s mother, a woman with whom he had a previous relationship, died days after giving birth.
He moved the girl into his Atlanta home, where he soon found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA: Senate climate bill would add about $100 a year in energy cost for typical household</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Josef Hebert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — A Senate plan to tackle global warming would add about $100 a year to the energy costs for a typical household, according to an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency.

The analysis released late Friday by the office of Sen. Barbara Boxer, who heads the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, generally mirrors the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>EPA estimates Senate climate bill would have modest impact on household energy costs</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>H. Josef Hebert</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — An analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency says a proposed Senate bill to combat global warming would add around $100 a year to a typical household&#8217;s energy costs.

The analysis released late Friday by Sen. Barbara Boxer&#8217;s office generally mirrors the cost projected by the EPA when it examined similar legislation passed last summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No relief for parents: College tuition is up sharply, outstrips overall US inflation rate</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Justin Pope</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase.

Average tuition at four-year public colleges in the U.S. climbed 6.5 percent, or $429, to $7,020 this fall as schools apologetically passed on much of their own financial problems, according [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 tips to help get started on a college savings account</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/3-tips-to-help-get-started-on-a-college-savings-account-192013/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:21:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new survey by online brokerage TD Ameritrade says college is the top reasons teens save their money. The results were a pleasant surprise to educators who are focusing on getting personal finance taught in schools. The survey indicated 78 percent of teens say they want to share the cost of college with their parents.

To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teens say college is the top reason for saving money</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Pitt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DES MOINES, Iowa — Stroll through the mall on a weekend and you get the impression teens save money to buy clothes or iPods and video game systems, but a new survey shows their priority is quite different — saving for college.

The survey by online brokerage TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. shows putting money away for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hurry up and wait: Veterans turn to loans, parents and schools as they wait for GI Bill funds</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COCONUT CREEK, Fla. — Brandon Thomas was hit by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade and twice grazed by bullets fired by the Taliban during his final tour with the Army in Afghanistan.

After risking his life, the 27-year-old father and Purple Heart recipient is one of thousands of veterans who now say they are waiting weeks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dem chairman calls for health care assistance for families as Senate committee begins work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:28:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Espo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — Bidding for support from Democrats as well as a single Republican, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee gaveled open a long-awaited debate over health care Tuesday with fresh plans to reduce costs on working-class families and impose new obligations on the insurance industry.

&#8220;This is our opportunity to make history,&#8221; said Sen. Max [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama administration recommends changes to boost use of state-run college savings plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martin Crutsinger</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON — The Obama administration wants states to make changes to college savings plans that it hopes will expand their use by middle class families.

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says the Section 529 savings plans can help Americans to save for college because of the tax savings they offer.
But a new Treasury report found that only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prepared text of President Barack Obama&#8217;s speech to school students on Tuesday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 18:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The prepared text of President Barack Obama&#8217;s back-to-school address scheduled for Tuesdays, as released in advance by the White House:

Hello, everyone — how&#8217;s everybody doing today? I&#8217;m here with students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia. And we&#8217;ve got students tuning in from all across America, kindergarten through 12th grade. I&#8217;m glad you all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Penn State asking merit scholar parents for donations to help out needier students</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Matheson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA — Students who are accepted into Penn State University&#8217;s prestigious honors college get more than academic feathers in their caps. They get $3,500 annual merit scholarships.

But given the tough economic times, the school is making an unusual request: Would parents consider donating that money back?
The fundraising appeal for Schreyer Honors College leans on parents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noncustodial parents struggle with child support payments as a result of income loss</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/noncustodial-parents-struggle-with-child-support-payments-as-a-result-of-income-loss-151425/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:44:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan K. Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — As the owner of a successful acupuncture clinic in a wealthy Washington suburb, David Vandenberg never had any problems making a $433 monthly child support payment.

Until last year, when his business faltered and he went on unemployment. Unable to find another job, the 50-year-old Vandenberg moved to Arkansas to live with his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parents trade baby-sitting shifts to make date night affordable in the economic recession</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/parents-trade-baby-sitting-shifts-to-make-date-night-affordable-in-the-economic-recession-142846/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rodrique Ngowi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WATERTOWN, Mass. — When Jenny Iverson and her husband left Utah last year, they didn&#8217;t just lose a tight-knit community of relatives. They lost their network of free baby sitters.

To make occasional &#8220;date nights&#8221; with her husband affordable, Iverson made a pitch to her new friends in Massachusetts: If you watch my kids, I&#8217;ll watch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A free lunch: Other cities look to replicate Philly&#8217;s no-strings-attached school meal program</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/a-free-lunch-other-cities-look-to-replicate-phillys-no-strings-attached-school-meal-program-100145/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathy Matheson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PHILADELPHIA — For students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, there IS such a thing as a free lunch — and a free breakfast, too. With no strings attached.

The Philadelphia school district&#8217;s unique program provides free food for all children in schools with a high percentage of low-income students, dispensing with the cumbersome forms parents must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economy, university tuitions prompt more college students to move to schools closer to home</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donna Gordon Blankinship</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE — A few months ago, Rebecca Gottlieb faced a difficult choice: continue on at her $50,000-a-year private school in Massachusetts, or leave her new friends and life and enroll at a cheaper school near home in Washington.

Gottlieb, 19, decided to transfer, dumping Tufts University for Western Washington University and joining the growing numbers of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out of Africa and back: Senegal basketball star returns as mentor and businessman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd Pitman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[DAKAR, Senegal — He moves across the sand-specked basketball court swathed in the glossy dark blue jersey of his old Japanese pro team, a keepsake from a career that propelled him around the world.

Now back home in Africa, playing among friends, Ndongo Ndiaye is in no hurry to impress anymore. But when a crosscourt pass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When even fast-food restaurants aren&#8217;t hiring, unemployed teens finding summer stimulus jobs</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/when-even-fast-food-restaurants-arent-hiring-unemployed-teens-finding-summer-stimulus-jobs-88902/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.taragana.com/n/when-even-fast-food-restaurants-arent-hiring-unemployed-teens-finding-summer-stimulus-jobs-88902/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristen Wyatt</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — You know the economy&#8217;s bad when teens can&#8217;t get summer jobs at fast-food restaurants or movie theaters.

So thousands are picking up shovels, brooms and trash in part-time jobs paid for with federal stimulus money, which includes $1.2 billion for youth employment.
&#8220;I was looking for jobs everywhere, and no one was calling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ensign aide: Husband of Nevada senator&#8217;s former mistress asked for money</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Hennessey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — The husband of Sen. John Ensign&#8217;s former mistress made &#8220;exorbitant demands for cash and other financial benefits&#8221; through an attorney, an aide to the Nevada Republican said Friday. In a statement, Ensign spokesman Tory Mazzola said the demands from an attorney for Doug Hampton were made within the past month.

&#8220;The demands were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aide: Husband of Nevada Sen. Ensign&#8217;s former mistress asked for money</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 05:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kathleen Hennessey</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS — The husband of Sen. John Ensign&#8217;s former mistress made &#8220;exorbitant demands for cash and other financial benefits&#8221; through an attorney, an aide to the Nevada Republican said Friday.

In a statement, Ensign spokesman Tory Mazzola said the demands from an attorney for Doug Hampton were made within the past month.
&#8220;The demands were referred [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down economy forces some families to cut back, stay home _ and get to know each other again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Megan K. Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — After almost 16 years of marriage, Unita Walburn and her husband had drifted apart. The stress of raising two special needs children had taken its toll and the couple was saddled with medical debt.

But rising food, gas and medical costs forced them to adopt a more frugal life — they cut cable, [...]]]></description>
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