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...second study, Fairbrother concluded that children who were covered by private insurance were over three times more likely than government-insured children to lose their coverage if a parent lost or quit a job. That's a scenario increasingly familiar to Americans. "Higher unemployment figures mean more and more families are ending up uninsured now," Fairbrother says. Moreover, she adds, they're not getting access to the public insurance to which they're entitled, because of budget cuts. "The federal government needs to fund its health-care programs in a way not so exposed to economic cycles...
...milk. I really can't tell you the biggest, stupidest thing I've done... I wish I hadn't gotten out of the energy drink business. Recently I just saw that Crunk drink is real hot and they're making a lot of money. The only thing I ever quit that I had invested a lot in and I could've made a lot of money at [was] the energy drink Def Con 3. It was supposed to be a healthy drink and all and I let go of it; there were too many things going on. I wish...
...repealed at Saveourtacotrucks.org, a web site created by two teachers, Aaron Sonderleiter and Chris Rutherford. Signers have left comments like, "The revolution will be served on a paper plate," "This is for you, Taco Zone. Your al pastor tacos have warmed my soul on many a cold night," and "Quit punishing people for bringing us taco-induced joy! Viva los taco trucks...
...Hogwarts ghosts have a tradition I think worth borrowing. They celebrate their Deathday, a party marking the date they quit this mortal coil. If a child's birthday leans forward--first steps, a bike, a license, the vote--a Deathday looks back at a life well lived and, for the lucky, well ended. It's a lovely spring morning as I write this, just as it was six years ago on the day I said goodbye to my father...
...through an infomercial company. It turns out a lot of people feel the same way. Gold parties, at which friends gather over drinks after raiding their senile mom's drawers for heirlooms to melt down, have become this recession's dance marathons. I called January Thomas, who just quit her sales job in Michigan to run her new company, My Gold Party mygoldparty.com) She sent me a $700 kit with a jeweler's loupe, a scale and a machine that tests how many karats a piece of gold has. I had not felt so Jewish since my Bar Mitzvah...