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Queercents Weekly Roundup: Rainy Day Beach Trip
This week’s round up comes early, in part so you can take advantage of the Free Museum admission pass, and mostly because I’m packing to leave on an awesome LGBT retreat with some of my favorite queer and ally friends. Both Pepsi and Steven Speilberg have contributed 500,000 and 100,000 respectively to the No on…
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Ten Money Questions for Michael Jacoby
Michael Jacoby is a filmmaker and director of Ten More Good Years, a new documentary about LGBT elders and the governmental and social injustices experienced by those growing old and gay in America. It’s screening around the world at a number of film festivals this fall and has been licensed by both the Sundance Channel…
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Disputing, Rationalizing, and Explaining Claims and Statistics of Unequal Pay
The longstanding debate about women earning less than men has been gaining steam this political season with Obama’s commercial bringing this discussion back into the limelight. Regardless of your opinion or dis/agreement with the statistics that get thrown around a few things are clear: 1)In many instances women are paid less than men and 2)…
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Four Tough Questions about Aging Parents’¦ And Step Parents
I worry about my parents’ retirement plans and future medical care. As I’ve gotten older and more involved in the personal finance community, the prospect of my own retirement has come up more and more. I find I’m faced with the possibility of having to care for four elderly people. A little background: I’m 32;…
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Another Reason to Avoid Bottled Water
Bottled water has been around for several decades now, but recently, with Poland Spring’s announcement that it is looking to tap another spring in Shapleigh, Maine, there seems to be a resurgence of people suggesting we look for alternatives to bottled water. Martinique has already commented on the frugal aspect, and Nina has asked the…
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Moneytalk: How (and Whether) to Talk to Your Kids About Your Financial Problems
How do we talk to our kids about our financial problems? Should we? As I read the umpteenth story about the difficulties people are having in this crazy market, I can’t help thinking about these downsized, 401k-drained, foreclosured, bankrupt workers’ children. What sense are they making of all this? Are kids scared of losing their…
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Stretch Your Food Dollar: Fresh vs. Frozen
This is the eleventh installment in our weekly series about food budgeting. You may have noticed that the price of produce has gone up since the end of the summer. Part of that, of course, is the current trend of food inflation that has been tied to the rising price of oil (despite this week’s…
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Femme Economics: Butch-Femme Spending Report
It seems Femme Economics is here these days to serve a new purpose: keep things light, fun and personal while national economics take keep on diving. When I started to write for my upcoming E-book, Beauty for Feminists, I was so concerned with all of the products and fashion sold to feminine women that I…
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Did someone inside the beltway dislike Lehman Brothers?
At last our elected officials have realized that putting separate band-aids on separate bullet wounds ‘¦ one at a time, could not stop the bleeding. Now that there is discussion of a RTC – Resolution Trust Corporation‘esq – a government owned company that would buy the assets that banks and brokers don’t want, there is…
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