With the election nearly upon us, it’s almost impossible to pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV without hearing about the Tea Party. What began as a collection of protests in early 2009 has exploded into a runaway political movement, with all American eyes fixed on the Party’s candidates in Tuesday’s Midterm Elections. [...]
Women are more involved with day-to-day household finances than ever before but most are still not planning for retirement and other major life goals. This is the finding of a recently published Prudential Financial’s 10th anniversary study on the “Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women”. The report showed that 95 percent of women are involved [...]
As nails continue to be hammered into the public option coffin, I am baffled at the professed public’s willingness to trust the health insurance industry. After all, this is the group that brought us gender-rating. Gender rating is a practice where insurance companies charge women more than men for individual health insurance policies even if [...]
My friend and her husband are getting divorced: three small children and irreconcilable differences. He is a partner at a law firm and earns $800,000 per year. She is a stay-at-home mother. After the divorce, who will pay more for health insurance? As regressive as it may seem, my unemployed single mother friend will [...]
I love Mother’s Day because it is a time to reflect on the priceless care moms provide for free. Well, perhaps not free, but without a documentable price tag. Think back to your best childhood memories. Most likely, they involve home and family, and someone there for you every step of the way. For many [...]
Michelle Obama is arguably the most visible mother in America. She professed on the campaign trail that her children are the last thing she thinks about before bed and the first thing she thinks about when she wakes up in the morning. How many mothers can relate to that?
This past Wednesday, the New York Post published a cartoon likening the author of the stimulus bill, perhaps President Barack Obama, to a deranged chimpanzee. It caused an outrage. Al Sharpton led a protest march in front of the New York Post headquarters in New York City and asked people to boycott the newspaper. His concern took hold.
Health education is required at my children’s schools. Personal, physical, sexual, and even environmental health is all part of the curriculum. But what about financial health? While some high schools offer elective courses in investments and banking, most do not. The assumption is that kids will learn about money along the way and that their parents will guide them.
Most couples can’t bring themselves to talk about money. People find it easier to talk about sex than about finances. Indeed the number one cause for divorce in America is money.
I’m a self-proclaimed optimist and hopeful about the “yes, we can” message emanating from Washington. But I felt as if I’d been kicked in the gut last week when I read a New York Times article by Robert Pear about price gauging in health policies for women.
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