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What could cost $885,000? Stopping work to care for elderly parents – Florida Courier

BY CARLA FRIED RATE.COM/TNS Millions of women — yes, it’s mostly women — end up in midlife weighing a temporary work exit to care for ailing parents. The economic cost can be devastating. The Center for American Progress has an eye-opening calculator, designed to help young families understand the cost of taking time off to […]

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