There may be no cognitive dissonance quite like parenthood. There’s the rapture of it, yes. The transcendence of it, yes. The unbounded love you hear about and hear about and hear about, until you think that it’s all got to be some kind of well-orchestrated breeders’ propaganda to conscript those ...

5 tips for readjusting your financial game plan I heard from an old friend recently who had been financially responsible her whole life, but a layoff several years ago derailed her savings. Now she’s nearing 60 and panicked about whether she’ll be able to retire when she had originally planned to ...

Married mothers find it harder to secure a new job after being laid off and when they do, they earn less than married fathers More men than women lost their jobs in the recession, making for some catchy terminology: “he-cession” has a lyrical ring to it. But, according to new research, ...

A new study confirms that shift workers — people who work late nights, irregular hours or mixed night-and-day schedules — are at higher risk of heart attack and stroke People who work irregular schedules or work outside of normal daytime hours are at higher risk of heart attack, stroke, and other ...