Single Parent Family: Good morning, Hoffman Estates and Schaumburg!
THE BRIEFS Spectrum offers parenting class for single parents, stepparents Raising children in a single-parent family and stepfamily will be the focus of the six-week "New Beginnings" parenting skills course scheduled for 7 to 9 p.m. Thursdays, Oct. 15 through Nov. 19, at Schaumburg Township hall, 1 Illinois Blvd., Hoffman Estates. The course is sponsored by the Township's Spectrum Youth and Family Services. The fee is $20 per person or couple to...
Single Parent Family: Diary
SINGLE Parent Family Association introduction night, 8pm Friday January 25, for all single parents (incl resident and contact). 1300 300 496. KIRRIBILLI markets, 7am-3pm Saturday January 26, Milsons Point bowling greens, Bradfield Park (next station). 9922 4488.PARENTS Without Partners northside branch new members' information and joining night, 8pm Tuesday February 5 and 19. Pam 9875 2738 or Warren 9868 7179.NEUTRAL Bay Senior Citizens' Club bus trip to...
Single Parent Family: Single-parent Jewish families can connect through agency
'Single families have always felt outside of the Jewish community," says Linda Orbach-Shear, director of the Single Jewish Parents Network. "Our mission is to support family-fun, Jewish education programs to help single-parent families maintain their presence and involvement in the Jewish community, as well as maintain a Jewish identity in their homes."SJPN, a division of Jewish Experiences for Families and a department of the Agency for...
Single Parent Family: TAXES ON POOR DIFFER BY STATE
ILLINOIS PRESSES TAXES FAR BELOW POVERTY
As poor Americans try to move from welfare to work, they sometimes find taxes in the way - depending on where they live.A new study has found widely varying state tax policies, with many states taxing people far below the poverty level. Illinois, for example, taxes a single parent family of three with an adjusted income of as little as $3,900, one of the lowest taxable incomes in the nation. Missouri wouldn't begin taxing the same family until it earned $10,800, while in...