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Bill Moyers and Wendell Potter - Profits Before Patients

With all the talk about health care in the news lately, I thought it relevant for everyone to watch Bill Moyers’ interview with Wendell Potter, a health insurance insider and former executive for Cigna.

Seriously, everyone should watch it. It’s eye-opening, to say the least. Now I’m not surprised at all why Aetna (my health/dental insurance [...]

Desperately Seeking a Job (No Longer)

Note: This is a follow-up from a previous post (Desperately Seeking a Job).

As some of my readers (both of you) may remember, I’ve been on the job market for some time now, furiously and desperately trying to land my first job as a university professor. Times have been tough. My wife and I have been [...]

Desperately Seeking a Job

I generally try to post information that is useful and helpful to other people, but now and then I need to reserve a post for an outpouring of personal information and emotion. This is one of those posts.

I admit: I’m downright nervous about jobs, or in this case, the lack thereof. As some of [...]

Freedom Through Poverty?

Mr. B has a confession. For all intents and purposes, I’m unemployed. No, that’s not quite true. I’m actually a doctoral candidate at my university, and astute readers (both of you!) may remember that in some of my posts from last spring, I made references to being on a job interview. i actually had two [...]

5 Reasons Why You Should Open A 529 Account Right Now

My wife and I are both grad students, currently without any children. Even so, I recently opened 529 plans through Learning Quest (Kansas). What is a 529 plan? Essentially, it is a tax-advantaged account meant for future expenses related to higher education.

I’m embarrassed to admit that I thought you could only open 529 plans after [...]