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With the national unemployment rate at 6.1%, chances are that you know someone who is jobless. And for someone without money coming in, getting help finding a job, or at least making it less stressful, is the best gift you can give. As someone who is approaching six months since being laid off,...

Beyond giving birth, moms make sacrifices for their children. Maybe they do without the regular trip to the hair stylist so their kids can go to the right preschool. Or they stop watching soap operas in favor of cartoons or a trip to the park. This Christmas season, more moms are sacrificing for...

Imagine it's Christmas morning. You rush downstairs and first check your Christmas stocking to see what Santa put inside -- a gasoline gift card. Surprise! Merry Christmas! In what is now an ongoing joke in my household, I buy my wife a $10 Christmas gift card at one of the finer stores in town:...

As the unemployed father of a 4-year-old daughter who is starting to notice the ads on TV and in magazines for Christmas toys, I worry about the high-priced gifts from Santa that she may soon start asking for. And along comes the $95 Maru doll, which is supposed to be the hottest new doll of the...

Earlier this year I posted what I thought was an excellent Christmas gift idea; take that jar of loose change you've been accumulating to the nearest Coinstar coin machine and convert your change into gift certificates. While Coinstar charges up to 8.9% for change-to-folding-money exchanges, you...

Every year, I jot down the titles of books I'd like to give and get as holiday gifts based on publishing emails I receive and lists I scan like Fortune's recent holiday book list. I was surprised that The Annotated Godfather: The Complete Screenplay, made the cut. But I'll keep it on the back...