New York CNN — Parents aren’t alone in feeling the extra pinch in the wallet this year in paying for back-to-school necessities. Teachers, too, are digging deeper to meet their classroom needs out of pocket. Sarah Adkins, a third grader teacher with Pennoyer School District 79, a Northwest Chicago surburban elementary school, spends an average of $300 to $500 a …
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Las Vegas Democrat Assemblywoman Michelle Gorelow has announced she is not seeking reelection next year after it was revealed that she voted to appropriate $250 thousand to a non-profit weeks before that very same organization hired her as its executive director. Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Taylor Avery broke the initial story, but it was the pro-Lombardo Better Nevada PAC that did …
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Recent revelations show that a state lawmaker was hired as the executive director of a non-profit just one month after voting to appropriate hundreds of thousands of dollars to that very same organization. Better Nevada PAC Director of Operations John Burke tells us they open records requested communications between Democratic Assemblywoman Michelle Gorelow and Arc of Nevada after it was …
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CNBC’s Jim Cramer suggested investors introduce their children to stocks by making it fun and simple. Cramer recommended first explaining to children the most basic principle of investing: a company can be owned by the public, and you can own a share in that company. He suggested parents then buy their kids shares in companies they might recognize from their …
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Mackenzie Martin earned her master’s degree in secondary education and teaching, and thought she would be a classroom teacher for “a long time” when she started her teaching career in Henrico County. But her plan did not work out as expected when met with the exorbitant workload caused by insufficient staffing at Highland Springs High School in eastern Henrico. “My …
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