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Enriching Education: Finishing Trades Institute of the Upper Midwest School Partnership

Motherhood Moments

The Finishing Trades Institute of the Upper Midwest (FTIUM) announced it will deliver free career and technical education (CTE) programming starting with 24 high school students from 15 local high schools starting this January. percent of members being women and/or persons of color.

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Meet a Reader | AF in Virginia

The Frugal Girl

When the student loan interest accrual was paused due to the pandemic, we buckled down and paid them off. The biggest would be the student loans. Did you ever receive any financial education in school or from your parents? It has been amazing for our finances and my mental health. Dinner is dinner!

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Thankful Thursday | 80%

The Frugal Girl

This one is from the PEO sisterhood , an organization that helps support the education of women. And of course, I’ve already paid for my student uniforms and the other various required supplies. Geez, I can’t believe I made it this far in today’s post before I remembered to include this.

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A clean-the-inbox Q&A

The Frugal Girl

Have you read and would recommend any books similar to Unorthodox or Educated? I’d say the theme of these books is something like…women breaking free from oppressive, fundamentalist religious sects, where they could not be properly educated or have freedom and agency. Andrea Ooh, this is a good question!

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Q&A | Nursing School Qs, plus shoes, a planner, and the abandoned house

The Frugal Girl

Do you think your life as an educator prepared you for continuing your education as an adult? (I But honestly, I think my greatest educational advantage at this point is just age. There are 140 students in my cohort, and we all attend lectures together in a big room. ah, algebra. My brain has been busy!

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Gender Inequality in 2014

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Student council was for the guys, girls didn’t get elected. In many countries, women’s rights were pretty non-existent. Cultural and historical mores allowed encouraged men to beat their wives, sell women for sex, marry off their daughters as children or just flat out get rid of the female babies.

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The Top Personal Finance Tips For Recent Graduates; From 10 different Finance Experts

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

She runs MoneyZen Wealth Management , and has a financial blog geared toward helping women master their finances. She is passionate about working with women in transition (widows, divorcees) as well as small-business owners, pre-retirees, retirees, Generation X and Y, and all the people in between. “If .” – Manisha Thakor, CFA.