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Ask Jen! Education

by Jennifer Kushell November 21, 2007

Welcome to Ask Jen, a Q&A with the “career doctor” herself Jennifer Kushell! Every Wednesday, Jen will answer one of your burning career questions so start sending them in! If you would like to submit a question, please e-mail askjen@ysn.com and she’ll do her best to get to them all. Oh, and don’t forget to [...]

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Mommy Money: What?! No Paid Leave???

by Jovie Baclayon August 22, 2007

I found it. The one political issue that could quite possible turn me into an American citizen: federally mandating paid maternity leave. Call me naïve, blind, dumb or whatever, but it never occurred to me that millions of new parents were taking unpaid one, two, three month (or more) leaves. In the years I’ve worked, [...]

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Weekly Roll Call!

by admin August 7, 2007

With the Presidential elections just over a year away, reports of which celebrities support which candidates are all over the news. Oprah Winfrey has announced her endorsement for Barack Obama, Tom Hanks and Ben Stiller donated money to Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and Tony Sirico of “The Sopranos” gave money to Giuliani. So we want to [...]

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CNN vs. TMZ: The Battle of My Bookmarks

by Bianca Vance July 24, 2007

I woke up this morning to a 7 AM phone call from my best friend in Texas. This is pretty much a weekly occurrence because she can’t seem to get the whole time zone thing through her head and forgets that I wake up around 8:30 my time, not hers. Well, this morning was like [...]

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Rock Your Vote

by Bianca Vance July 19, 2007

My mom is incredibly politically active. Ever since I can remember, my mom was talking to us about politics, buying political magnets and t-shirts and then, of course, the good ol’ political bumper stickers. I grew up in a very conservative neighborhood in Texas, where democrats were far and few between and republicans won the [...]

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