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...living by working two jobs. By day, the 49-year-old single mom worked full time in a local hospital, drawing blood samples from patients awaiting surgery. That paycheck went to cover the mortgage on her modest Minneapolis, Minn., home. To pay other bills--including parochial-school tuition for daughter Amy, 13--Lind worked 21 hours a week at Davanni's Pizza, a supplier of Northwest Airlines' domestic in-flight meals, where she earned $9 an hour...
...have worked full time, continuously, for 12 months before they lose their jobs. So even though Stewart and his employer paid into the unemployment-insurance fund every week that he worked, he can't draw anything out of it. A single parent, Stewart is supporting his 17-year-old daughter by digging into his savings while he looks for work. But he finds that "there just aren't any jobs out there anymore...
...World Trade Center. As she walked into the memorial building, she paused at a picture of a curly-haired young woman that hangs on the fence outside. "I think there are a lot of new angels up there with you today," she said to the frozen image of her daughter Carrie Lenz, who died in the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building when she was 26 and six months pregnant...
...Porter returns home. “It’s a little later than I normally like to come home, because I like to spend time with each of my children. I worked with my 11-year-old daughter on some of her homework, on science, we were working on some measurements. It is great fun for me to think about how people learn and how you can help people develop the skill to learn things. One of the funnest things in life is learning new things. I also spent some time talking with our 17-year-old son about...
Harvard’s Meredith Jameses stand in opposition to students like Amy E. Keel ’04, who hesitated to apply to or attend Harvard solely because of cost. The daughter of two public school teachers, Keel grew up in wealthy Milton, Mass. as the odd family out. “I hated when kids at school would read off long lists of what they got for Christmas,” says Keel. “I never had as much stuff. My mother wanted to have more kids, but we didn’t have enough money...