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College costs have been rising much faster than inflation over the past few decades. A study by LendingTree indicated that in-state public schools cost an average of $25,290 per year in the 2017/2018 school year, while private colleges cost a whopping $50,900. That works out to a total average bill across four years of somewhere in the neighborhood of $100,000 to $200,000 -- and that's before considering those faster-than-inflation cost increases. Price tags like that put a college education out of the range of most people's ability to cover via cash flows from their salaries. That means if you want to send your kids to college, you'll probably either need to save up a large chunk of the cost in advance or borrow the money. Borrowing money to pay for college brings its own set of problem

For 25 years, the House of Champions Martial Arts Academy in Van Nuys has prepared students to defend themselves from dangers that may lurk around any corner. Unfortunately, one opponent wasn't not susceptible to punches or kicks. The school was forced to close to in-person classes in March because of the coronavirus pademic. Jaxon Moura, 5-yers old, works on punching during class at The House of Champions Martial Arts Academy in Van Nuys, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The martial arts academy opened its doors last week after being forced to close in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG) Shihan Mark Parra, Owner and Chief Instructor of The House of Champions, applies hand sanitizer to students as they enter the school in Van Nuys, Wednesday, June 17, 2020. The martial arts academy opened its doors last week after being forced to close in March due to the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily Ne

I recently lost a distant friend. When I learned of her death, I was immediately affected by it. It didn't matter that we were no longer close: I felt engulfed by her loss and wanted to cherish her memory. We sat around the dinner table that evening as a family of four and I shared the news. After dinner, I told my husband that I was just going to sit in our bed and try to read, but really, I just wanted time and space to feel sad. I was in my room for about ten minutes before my kids (5 and 7) started coming into the bedroom. They drew me pictures to help cheer me up. They climbed onto my bed and offered me Hershey's Kisses, hugs, and real kisses. While the gestures were sweet, I just wanted to sit in my grief and sadness. "Look, Mommy!" my daughter said. "Here's a funny face to make you smile!" "Thank you," I said. "But Mommy just wants to feel sad right now. You don't have to cheer me up." Related: 6 Strategies to Teach Your

NEW YORK (AP) — It wasn't just the leadership opportunities or seeing his best friends or even escaping months stuck at home because of the coronavirus pandemic that had Rory Sederoff thinking 2020 would be one of his best summers ever. This would have been the Toronto teenager's 15th year at Camp Walden, a sleepaway camp in upstate New York where he has spent every summer since he was 3 months old. He had already started rehearsing the speech he was going to give at the end-of-summer banquet, and imagined the exact tree by the waterfront that he would pick to be named in his honor. For 14-year-old Rory, whose parents work at Walden, camp is where he feels most like himself — disconnected from screens and open to new opportunities. "This summer, I would do many things that I won't really be able to do again," he said. "It's a summer filled with opportunities that now won't happen. There's no way to get

Now that the United States has begun to reopen, apparel brands are hoping for the return of shoppers—and perhaps even permitting themselves to think optimistically about their autumn collections. After all, fall is just around the corner, and many shoppers start looking for chilly weather clothing as early as July. But as with so many other facets of business, the pandemic hasn't just changed shopping patterns but marketing, too. Few brands are feeling that shift as acutely as French Toast. As a maker of accessibly priced school clothes for kids, the 35-year-old label stakes much of its vitality on back-to-school shopping. And since parents will start thinking about school clothes in just a few weeks, now's the time to get the creative work done, since it's all scheduled to go live on June 30. The question was: Where do you even begin? Nobody's sure when kids will be heading back to school, much less what school's going to look like once they g

Studio 8H may be vacant due to COVID-19, but new Saturday Night Live sketches are still being produced — sort of. Jason Sudeikis and Seth Meyers' kids starred in a cut SNL sketch titled "Unicorn," which aired on Monday night. In the Second Chance Theatre segment for Late Night With Seth Meyers, Sudeikis and Olivia Wilde' children, Otis, 6, and Daisy, 3, and Meyers' children, Ashe, 4, and Axel, 2, resurrected a scrapped sketch penned by SNL writer Mike O'Brien about a unicorn with pink eye. Filmed across three different backyards due to quarantine, "Unicorn" also stars Sudeikis and O'Brien as a father and a unicorn caregiver, respectively. The sketch begins with Sudeikis as he gifts his four children their own pet unicorns during a birthday party. However, his dreams to give his children the perfect gift are ultimately shattered when the unicorns turn out to be "the nightmare of all gifts," per Meyers' narration. "Now I wasn'