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10,000 Miles of Miracles

How two middle-aged 'Dames Gone Wild' found purpose during a cross-country road trip

After her marriage collapsed and her son suffered a severe head injury, Carol Hasbrouck thought she met her quota on hard times. Then came the 2008 Great Recession. In her new book, Hasbrouck chronicles her travels with her friend/roommate Joyce Claflin. Known as "The Dames," they traverse the country during a "summer service adventure" to get their mojo back.

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Kim Whiting
May 16, 2024
Personal Care Assistant Shortages CareersDisabilitiesEducationHealth

Personal Care Assistant Shortages

Will pay raises be enough to avert a health crisis?

As of 2022, there were more than 7,800 unfilled personal care assistant positions in Minnesota. PCA staffing agencies are struggling due to the shortage of people willing to work in those positions at the current pay rates. A recent wage increase for PCAs in the state could help address the shortage, and get people who rely on them the help they desperately need.

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Kim Whiting
September 4, 2023
Staffing Shortage Solutions CareersDisabilitiesEducationHealth

Staffing Shortage Solutions

Disability organization innovates to recruit, retain quality employees

Staff retention is a major challenge for organizations that support people with disabilities. Partly due to rising demand and stagnant wages, as well as the common perception that this kind of work is temporary, these organizations are constantly struggling to fill positions. However, some organizations are finding new, creative ways to solve this issue.

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Rachel Lieberman
August 28, 2019
Cracks in the Foundation CareersEducationPolitics

Cracks in the Foundation

Public education is rapidly crumbling. How do we fix it?

"How do we not see why a kid who can't read or has learning disabilities or is told he's dumb, then drops out of school, lives in poverty, joins a gang, commits a crime, maybe injures or kills someone, and is incarcerated? Why do we look past it?" writer Tim Munkeby asks. He argues that if kids had a stable base and a good, solid foundation to begin with, we would spend less time and money trying to fix resulting problems. That foundation, he says, is education.

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Tim Munkeby
May 10, 2019
Scenes from A Picket Line BusinessCareersEducationProtests

Scenes from A Picket Line

A Los Angeles teacher chronicles week-long strike

More than 30,000 Los Angeles teachers came to terms with their school district and struck a new contract deal in January 2019 after a week-long strike. The walkout and settlement follow 20 months of failed negotiations between the teachers' union, United Teachers Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The Reporters Inc. asked one of the striking teachers to photograph the events surrounding his first week on the picket line.

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January 21, 2019
Slop Bucket Full of Promise BusinessCareersEconomyReal Estate

Slop Bucket Full of Promise

The sacrifices people make when they believe in themselves

After being burnt out and nearly broke from his real estate business, 50-year-old Jim McCleary started working as "cater-waiter" clearing dirty dishes off tables at black-tie events he used to attend. McCleary says he had no larger aspirations or goals outside his meager living until he started working alongside "young, wide-eyed dreamers...Being around them reminded me of the dreams I'd shelved years earlier."

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Jim McCleary
September 7, 2017
Me Thinks It Was Called “Life” CareersFamily

Me Thinks It Was Called “Life”

A funny thing happened on my way to the American Dream

When Jerry Huffman was 14 he realized there was little chance he would ever replace Sandy Koufax in the Los Angeles Dodgers' pitching rotation. Instead, he landed on a career in journalism. "I'm blessed in so many ways I've lost count," Huffman writes. "The mistake I made was buying into the media crap that an American Dream had to be bright and shiny to be real."

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Jerry Huffman
October 1, 2015
I Need A “Real Job”? CareersEducation

I Need A “Real Job”?

Why a cookie-cutter post graduate career plan isn't for me

Kari Iverson graduated from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis two years ago. If you asked her then what her dream career might be, she would've said she wanted to be a television news foreign correspondent. But today, she has a completely different answer.

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Kari Iverson
August 12, 2015
Last Stage Manager Standing Arts & EntertainmentBook ReviewsCareers

Last Stage Manager Standing

From behind the camera lens, a TV vet tells all

Television is one of the most significant inventions of our lifetime. It's an integral part of most people's daily routines--from the morning news to soap operas, children's shows and live sporting events. But what goes on behind the camera? Daniel Morgan spent more than half a century as a stage manager in New York City, working on both a local and national level. In his memoir, Last Stage Manager Standing, Morgan tells all, detailing the drama and shenanigans that happened behind the camera.

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July 8, 2015
Starting Over AgingCareersEconomy

Starting Over

Middle-aged VP leaves corporate world to pursue acting

At age 52, Anthony Smith had achieved the brass ring: a top-level marketing executive position at one of the largest athletic wear companies in the world. He had what most would consider a dream life, author Vicki Kunkel writes. But Anthony felt unfulfilled. In Kunkel's new book she explains why Anthony and others are in search of a career second act.

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Vicki Kunkel
November 7, 2014
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