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...PBHA is a complicated organization with three separate identities—it’s a nonprofit group, a student group, and a department within the college—and that can be a lot to handle at times,” said McDonald...
...September, the number of white-collar workers who are jobless has doubled from two years ago. Professionals, managers and technical and administrative workers now make up 43% of the unemployed, according to the government. "Of course, other workers are hard hit too," says Jeffrey Wenger, an economist at the nonprofit Economic Policy Institute. "But considering where these people were just a few years ago, yes, it's pretty grim...
...time in cafes because coffee is cheap," she says. "I avoid talking to certain friends because I get tired of the questions like, 'Are you looking? Where have you looked?'" Delman has given up on re-entering the gutted tech field; she is pursuing grant-writing jobs for nonprofit groups and getting by on monthly unemployment checks...
State agencies and nonprofit organizations have received hundreds of complaints in the past few years from clients who feel bilked. Some custodial parents don't realize how difficult the contracts are to cancel and find themselves paying exorbitant fees for services that aren't fully delivered. "We have all sorts of people who have gone to private agencies and feel ripped off and lied to," says Geraldine Jensen of the Association for Children for Enforcement of Support, whose members are low-income parents seeking child support. Channeling the collective anger, Charles Barr, a lawyer in Milwaukee, Wis., has filed...
...some critics of the private sector urge the Administration to do more. "Here we have an industry where some of the companies, by almost any measure, are alleged to be doing bad things," says Vicki Turetsky, a senior staff attorney at the Center for Law and Social Policy, a nonprofit organization that works on behalf of low-income families. "But there's no message coming from the Bush Administration that these practices won't be tolerated." A few states, including Connecticut, have passed laws capping commissions. At the federal level, however, there are no rules governing child-support collection, even...