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Just in time for Mother's Day, Forbes magazine is out with a story about the World's Richest Moms.
The article reveals that there are only 70 billionaires on the planet who are mothers, and "just eight of these (women) built their own fortunes." The rest inherited money from their fathers or late...
Mom doesn't want flowers for Mother's Day. She wants benefits that women around the world take for granted, according to Sharon Lerner.
Lerner, author of the new book "The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation" (Wiley, $25.95), told WalletPop five of the worst ways American mothers...
5 home-based businesses you can start now
2:30PM 3/15/2010
For many stay-at-home parents, getting a job outside of the home seems impossible. But that doesn't mean you can't find ways to earn money by setting up shop in your home. Skip the envelope stuffing, crafts assembly, and other dicey work-at-home schemes out there to avoid wasting time and money....
Moms want kids to go to college, but few plan how to pay for it
6:30PM 12/01/2009
About 74% of women say it's very important for their kids to go to college and get a degree, according to a new OppenheimerFunds Inc. survey. But in many cases, women spend a lot more time preparing their children to get into college than figuring out how to pay for it.
According to the poll,...
Single women are hit hard by the recession
5:00PM 11/20/2009
There have been a lot of reports about which group of people have been hit hardest by the recession. Men have definitely been hit disproportionately hard by job losses. In fact, men held 71.9% of the jobs lost since the recession began, hurt by mass layoffs in construction and manufacturing,...
Turning dirty diapers into . . . bicycle helmets?
1:00PM 11/17/2009
Consider the disposable diaper. It's part engineering marvel, a mechanism that takes one of the most foul side effects of parenthood and absorbs it into a small, manageable, plastic-wrapped package. But it's also part environmental catastrophe.
The average baby makes nearly 6,000 diapers dirty...
Massucci's Take: Facebook memorials could undermine good intentions
6:10PM 11/02/2009
Facebook's plan to memorialize its dead users is certainly well-intentioned. The idea got underway after a Facebook employee was tragically killed in a bicycle accident. As his co-workers struggled to come to grips with the tragedy, they also came up with an idea: Why not offer Facebook memorials...
Many first-time parents are stunned when they realize how much it cost to raise kids. Just how expensive is it? A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report says that a middle-income family who had a child last year is expected to spend $221,000 to raise him or her to the age of 17.
It's no...
Good options for moms re-entering the workforce
9:00AM 7/30/2009
Are you a stay-at-home mom ready to re-enter the workforce? More moms are job hunting to help shore up their families' finances. According to a MyWorkButterfly.com survey, 71% of moms who returned to the workforce said financial security was the most important benefit.
But many moms with outdated...
I think my mothering duties are worth $0
6:30PM 5/11/2009
I have, in years past, had mixed feelings about the annual estimations of a mother's worth, portioned out into little bits of hourly wages for laundry, cooking, and "managing" her household, and usually coming out just over the maximum salary I ever earned in my life (with an Ivy League MBA, that...
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