Writing at LearnVest, a personal finace website

learnvestI started writing today for LearnVest, a personal finance website aimed at women. My first post was on odd side jobs. I hope to have a few stories a week on the website, so check my byline often.

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10 Worst Places to Live gains traction

Plenty of website ranting about my WalletPop story on the 10 worst places to live:

NBC TV station in Columbus, Ohio, on Cleveland at No. 2 on list.

CNBC at least provided some good links back to original story.

Gawker story gets plenty of comments.

The Detroit News has a blurb about it.

Mlive.com, which owns newspapers in Michigan, is pleased that Detroit isn’t as bad as Cleveland.

New York Daily News is happy New York City isn’t on the list.

LA Weekly takes the low road and says AOL is a website for geezers, all while misspelling website.

New Jersey Newsroom cites story as “intelligent commentary.” Thank you.

The website ivpressonline in El Centro — which tops the list — speaks up.

The blog Miami New Times admits how bad it is there.

Indy Posted, a news website for busy people, linked to story but left a word out in its introductory paragraph.

Opposing Views likes all caps.

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AOL Jobs website improved

The AOL Jobs website that I recently started writing for again, due to my hours being cut elsewhere, overhauled its look today. It looks great and makes it easier to find stories and job hunting resources on various topics, including unemployment and career issues, which I cover.

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Author bios and new mugshots were also added, giving me the look of a modern artist. It’s also easier to find all of my stories on the site, which is the best news of all.

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Ben Stein upset with my work

I wrote about Ben Stein’s unfair portrait of the unemployed and how he thinks they have poor work habits and poor personalities.  He disagreed in an opinion piece at AOL News.

It turns out I’m not the only person who thought Stein went too far with his commentary dissing the unemployed as lazy.  Media Matters for America was critical of Stein. ThinkProgress.org points out that unemployment didn’t double during the recession because of lazy workers, but because of a bad economy.

The American Prospect takes it a step further, pointing out Stein’s ethical lapse by shilling for a credit company that tricked people into thinking they were getting a free credit report. Labor demand, not supply, is causing high unemployment, the website says.

Read Stein’s commentary in the American Spectator and at AOL News, and then read my story at WalletPop, and tell me what you think.

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TV interview on allowances

I was on ABC’s “The View From the Bay” on Friday, July 16, in San Francisco, and had a fun time talking about a story I did the previous day for WalletPop about how to introduce children to an allowance. The TV interview is also on WalletPop.

It was a lot of fun and my first appearance on TV.  I also got to meet Sheila E as she left the green room to go to the set.

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