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Cheap Eats!

It seems that everyone has had to cut back as the economy has soured and I have too. I live in Manhattan where everything is expensive. To add to that I recently lost my job. So here are some ideas on how...

12 comments    health life advice
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Getting Financial Help During Difficult Times

  After helping a family friend who was recently laid off after working for almost 30 years for the same company I realized that not everyone knows that there are options out there that can help...

5 comments    advice how to finance
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What is the best area to live in New York City?

What really is the "best place" to live in New York? To be completely honest with you I would have to customize this answer to your specific liking, and you may think "how can I do that". Well quite simply I...

2 comments    advice income real estate
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The Ethics of Food Stamps in the Culture of Reduced Circumstances

A campaign to convince the public that 1) poverty and even 2) the US Food Stamp benefit program used by the offically-qualified less fortunate do not cause decreased health is increasingly the topic of...

26 comments    food shopping politics
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Growing Money

Eight months ago, this hub would have been a very different hub, written strictly to illustrate a way to teach children (or grandchildren) how to grow money. Now, I’m thinking, this profitable life...

34 comments    money make money earn money
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Women on Welfare in California....and why the whole thing is B.S.!!!!!

Why are these women allowed to be on Welfare indefinitely? That is the one question I seem to ask myself all the time. I did some research on this subject and found that recently in California,...

24 comments    life children women
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Food Buying Cooperatives, Food Pantries and SNAP

This is the third article researching alternative ways to save money on food. Specifically, Food Buying Cooperatives, Food Pantries and SNAP (The old Food Stamp arrangement) are being touted as helpful...

7 comments    food food stamps snap
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Surviving Job Loss, Home And Foreclosure

Some of have experienced job loss from lay offs one time or the other and have worried greatly about the circumstance are families are in. But one thing we have found out from this devistation is that if...

0 comments    education jobs training
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Unemployment Update December 2008: No End in Sight

Well folks, I hate to tell you, but the unemployment rate did not improve for November. So far this year, we have lost 1.9 million jobs, and some economists are expecting it to climb to 3 million by the...

2 comments    bankruptcy unemployment
Valerie Belew, M. Div., ICADC, CADC, is presently working four jobs, and still living at below poverty level.  She has been trying to receive food stamp benefits for four months.70

FOOD STAMP BENEFITS: NOT FOR THE LAZY OR FAINT HEARTED

Valerie Belew, M. Div., ICADC, CADC, is presently working four jobs, and still living at below poverty level. She has been trying to receive food stamp benefits for four months. FOOD STAMP APPLICATE: VALERIE...

5 comments    life education food
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