As work habits change moms – and dads – juggle child-care
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- As work habits change moms – and dads – juggle child-care
- AP IMPACT: Gov’t mortgage partners sued for abuses
- Homebuyers gain an edge with Internet searches
- Stay-at-Home Moms Need a Career Plan
- Clash in AL East: Yankees Red Sox Rays locked in dogfight
As work habits change moms – and dads – juggle child-care
Boston Globe
But it’s not just gender roles and parental expectations that have changed in recent years. ur jobs have transformed too. Armed with BlackBerrys and laptops and VPN networks that allow employees to work from home during the day – and at night and on weekends – there’s a growing acceptance that for many white-collar professionals the work will get done no matter where or when it happens said Alexandra Levit career coach and author of “They Don’t Teach Corporate in College. ’’“People have to get their work done’’ she said “but there’s not this concentrated 9-to-5 you have to be there. ’’That’s a helpful change for many families who have two parents working full time. “We are now in a world where the typical family has all their adults working in the labor market which means there is not a parent home to deal with a sick child or a child-care crisis’’ Jane Waldfogel a professor of social work and public affairs at Columbia University School of Social Work wrote in an e-mail to the Globe. “I think parents speaking up about this is a very positive development – so long as both men and women are able to do so.
AP IMPACT: Gov’t mortgage partners sued for abuses
The Associated Press
Bayview never sent Simmons a letter by certified mail as required under her loan. Unbeknownst to Simmons the home was sold at auction in July 2005. She didn’t find out she had lost the house until the new buyer asked why she was doing yard work on a home she no longer owned said her lawyer Kevin Rose. The courts awarded Simmons $156809 — the difference between what her home was worth and what it had received in a foreclosure sale. Simmons could not be reached for comment. A spokesman for Bayview did not return repeated phone calls requesting comment. Rose said he gets “a lot of calls where it’s clear something was done wrong (by the servicer) and it’s clear you could reverse the foreclosure.
Homebuyers gain an edge with Internet searches
Philadelphia Inquirer
- In the colorful centuries-long history of house hunting when have so many buyers come to the table knowing so much about prices neighborhoods and school test scores?Probably never. Credit an average 16 weeks spent browsing the Internet before buyers contact a real estate agent to get serious. Fifteen years into the World Wide Web home searches once defined by riding around in agents’ sport-utility vehicles – a process in which agents knew all and a buyer knew little – have been thoroughly recast. Buyers – 84 percent of whom use the Internet for house hunting according to a California Association of Realtors study – have taken on much of the information gathering formerly done by agents who occupy the middle of a transaction and typically get a commission of 6 percent of the sales price 3 percent for the seller’s agent and 3 percent for the buyer’s agent. A variety of mostly similar Web sites now enable buyers to browse homes for sale probe a home’s transaction history gauge its tax bite compare area values and even see via aerial photos whether the neighbors have planted grass in the backyard. This maturing of real estate Web sites has raised questions about where agents and brokers fit in and opened some debate about the size of their commissions. At least one online brokerage is trying to redefine the agent pay structure to gain business by making it cheaper to buy and sell.
Stay-at-Home Moms Need a Career Plan
U.S. News & World Report
Any of these endeavors will enable a mom to keep her resume up-to-date so that she will be able to successfully transition back to work at a future date. Stay-at-home moms can keep their career in motion by maintaining their networks. It is advisable to establish an online presence on business and social networking sites such as LinkedIn Facebook and Twitter. You also need to get out of the house from time to time to network in person. It is advisable to join or keep up with your memberships in industry associations—and go to meetings whenever possible.
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Clash in AL East: Yankees Red Sox Rays locked in dogfight
USA Today
Since June 1 rtiz had improved his batting average from. 227 and hit 14 of his 15 home runs. “I don’t know I really don’t know” Francona says of finding playing time for everyone. “There’s going to have to be some cooperation.
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