Link Roundup!

“In other words, a person who bought a home for $200,000 in the summer of 1988 would have had to wait nine years before being able to sell it for $200,000 again.” Excerpt from Boston Globe article on Boston 28 month housing slump. link

Good news! Money can buy you happiness. But only if you're generous...link

Food Stamp Use Nears Record. link

The Boston Globe profiles Jennifer Smith, a teenaged mother trying to graduate from High School. link

“…many states use an inflated graduation rate for federal reporting requirements under the No Child Left Behind law and a different one at home. As a result, researchers say, federal figures obscure a dropout epidemic so severe that only about 70 percent of the one million American students who start ninth grade each year graduate four years later.” Excerpt from NYTimes article on drop-out statistics. link