Ways to avoid stress in eldercare: what at-risk groups should know

Everyone has a breaking point Laura Patyk's came while caring for three live-in elderly parents (including her father-in-law with dementia and her mom with congestive heart failure) and six kids under age 14. More »

Where are the future jobs for blacks?

Benita Johnson has a bachelor's degree in public administration. She recently moved to a new city to take her first full-time career position: an entry-level job at a government housing agency. She is 52. Johnson, who is African American, says she has been working off and on since she was 14. More »

Obama, race and the 2012 Election

I think the real wedge issue in the election will be Obama himself. This campaign will be more explicitly racialized than the last one. In spite of the economic difficulties that blacks face - an unemployment rate almost twice the norm - blacks nevertheless feel better about the economy than whites. More »

Poll: Half of Latino voters think the I-Word is offensive

According to a Fox News Latino poll conducted by Latin Insights, a New York-based independent research company, the majority of Latino "likely voters" believe the term "illegal immigrants" is offensive. Forty-six percent of those polled think the term is offensive, 12 percent think it is neutral and 35 percent think it is accurate. More »


Bill raises mandatory school attendance age to 18

The Massachusetts legislature's Joint Committee on Education voted favorably last week on a bill to reduce the school dropout rate in Massachusetts with a variety of prevention and recovery measures. More »

Job access bill addressing diversity makes progress

A bill aimed at increasing local and minority access to state-funded construction projects is one step closer to passage after receiving a thumbs-up last week from the Joint Committee on State Administration and Oversight. More »

Mild winter blamed for slow tourism season in Caribbean

The warm winter around the country is giving at least one Caribbean economy a bit of a cold. With temperatures rising higher than normal and less snow falling, fewer Americans have been getting the impulse to get away from the cold and go somewhere warm More »