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I'm Ashamed of My Money: Why Broke Is the New Single for Me

LearnVest | Posted 11.06.2012 | Home
Read More: Single, Familiy Finances, Household Budgets, Broke, Singles, Opportunity, Single Ladies, Single Women, Home News
LearnVest

Promising temp-to-perm positions petered out for my husband. Asking for raises lost me clients as a freelance writer. Unemployment ran out. And now, with two kids in preschool, our "trimming down" is more like a Brazilian bikini wax.

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Jon And Kate Debate His Claims Of Poverty

The Huffington Post | Lee Hernandez | Posted 08.02.2012 | Celebrity
Read More: Video, Broke, Jon Gosselin, John and Kate Plus 8, Celebrity News

This story has been updated to reflect Kate Gosselin's attorney's claim that her ex-husband doesn't owe any more child support. It's the start of t...

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The Moment I Knew My Spending Was Out Of Control (SUBMIT YOUR VIDEO)

Posted 03.07.2012 | Home
Read More: Maxing Out Credit Cards, Spending Habits, The Moment I Knew, Broke, Being Broke, Credit Card Spending, Online Shopping, Impulse Buying, The Moment I Knew My Spending Was Out of Control, Home News

At HuffPost, we're kicking off an exciting new project and we'd love you to participate! It's called "The Moment I Knew," and is a user-submitted vide...

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Living In Poverty: Stories Behind The Statistics

AP | DAVID CRARY | Posted 11.18.2011 | Business
Read More: Poverty, Broke, Americans Living in Poverty, Third World America, Paycheck to Paycheck, Poor, Poverty in America, Living in Poverty, Business News

At a food pantry in a Chicago suburb, a 38-year-old mother of two breaks into tears. She and her husband have been out of work for nearly two years. ...

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Hot Dog Time

Will Durst | Posted 01.23.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Broke, Redroom, Comedy News
Will Durst

Okay, so we're broke. Not "have to stretch to next payday" broke. Really broke. Our accounts are overdrawn, the credit cards are maxed out and if that's China on the phone, tell them we just stepped out. Yes, again.

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Weekly Audit: Massive Protest In Wisconsin Shows Walker's Overreach

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Rights, Collective Bargaining, Tractorcade, Poll, The Nation, Firefighter, Republican, Alternet, Steve Benen, Senator, Broke, Scott Walker, Protest, E.J. Dionne, Bank, M&I, Union, Jamelle Bouie, Budget, Washington Monthly, Wisconsin Democratic Party, Election, Enthusiasm Gap, Tapped, Campus Progress, Wisconsin, Koch, JoAnne Kloppenburg, SIMEON TALLEY, Madison, Roger Bybee, Farmer, Working in These Times, Recall, John Nichols, Inequality, Senate, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger About 100,000 people gathered in Madison, Wisconsin to protest Gov. Scott Walker's new anti-collective...

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Debt Relief Scam Report: GAO Calls Practices 'Fraudulent, Deceptive And Abusive'

Los Angeles Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Broke, Economic Crisis, Gao, Debt Relief, Main Street, Debt, Gregory Kutz, Financial Trouble, Credit Cards, Personal Debt, Government Accountability Office, Business News

A new report by undercover government investigators bolsters longstanding concerns that companies promising to help consumers overwhelmed by credit ca...

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