Recipe for Pink Slip Lemonade: excellent, up-to-the-minute article on layoff survival

Wow!  If you are a layoff victim or likely candidate, you owe it to yourself to click on this link.  While you might think Good Housekeeping magazine a source more likely to publish a recipe for Pink Slip Lemonade (the drink) than for Pink Slip Lemonade (the layoff financial recovery strategy), author Kate Ashford has [...]

Health insurance – One monster hurdle to self-employment

If you’ve ever thought about leaving a job with health insurance for part-time work or self-employment, chances are you were stopped short by the challenge of getting affordable coverage. The cost of private health care is so prohibitive, you probably ran screaming back to your day job, thankful at least for that aspect of it. [...]