Staff members at eight Head Start centers manipulated income information given to them by undercover applicants so that the applicants would get benefits they were not qualified for, according to a Government Accountability Office report being released Tuesday.
Question 1. Do you have to claim the money in the Cash for Clunkers program you received as income in your tax returns for next year? -- Joe, Indiana
A Senate committee approved a five-year, $35 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program that would be financed through higher tobacco taxes
Here is one doctor whose prescriptions are easy to read, good for what ails you and last a lifetime.
Florida authorities reopened Sanibel Island early Wednesday for the first time since August 12, when it was evacuated in advance of Hurricane Charley.
Money Magazine: Audit Me, Elmoupdated: Wed Oct 01 2003 00:01:00
How soon should children start learning about money? According to Sesame Street Workshop, age three is not too young. So on Sept. 10, Elmo and friends, along with Merrill Lynch, launched a financia...
Americans like to say that our children are our most valuable asset. Yet children at all income levels are suffering from neglect--not just the children of poverty, as some would like you to think....
While Americans proclaim the social and academic benefits of early-childhood education, the French deliver it: Virtually all children attend preschool, and eight of 10 go to free, government-run in...
THE EDUCATION message is getting through. When asked how concerned corporations were about the problems in American public schools, 98% of the companies responding to FORTUNE's fourth annual educat...
WHEN IT COMES to early childhood education, the U.S. ranks near the bottom of the class. Nearly every other major industrialized nation -- and even some developing countries -- see the job of educa...
SUDDENLY Head Start is on nearly everybody's agenda. Calling the $1.4 billion federal preschool program ''something near and dear to all of us,'' President Bush proposes to spend an additional $500...
Fortune: THE FRANKS updated: Mon May 21 1990 00:01:00
Until she and her husband divorced six years ago, Cheryl Frank, 41, was like a lot of women of her generation. Brought up in middle-class security in Denver, she was the first in her family to earn...
Fortune: CEOs FOR 4-YEAR-OLDSupdated: Mon Mar 27 1989 00:01:00
''Investing in our children is not just rhetoric. It's sound business practice, although many of our colleagues have yet to make that discovery.'' So said Arnold Hiatt, CEO of Stride Rite, who alon...
BABIES AREN'T just Gerber's business anymore. When William Popejoy stepped in to rescue American Savings & Loan Association in 1984, he eliminated 700 company cars, 39 condominiums, nine airplanes,...
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