County to get cold weather cash (BBC News)
Cold weather payments will be made to low-income residents across the whole of Oxfordshire.
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1 MA legislator refuses 5.5% pay raise (WBZ News Radio Boston)
A Republican state representative from Shrewsbury refused on Thursday to take the 5.5 percent pay raise being provided to legislators, saying she can't in good conscience accept the extra cash when many Massachusetts families are struggling to meet basic expenses.
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Seniors weather recession (Asbury Park Press)
Rose Amore, 77, of Holiday City is confident her fixed income will carry her through the end of the current recession.
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Lawrenceville 'extra' is getting in on the act (The Trentonian)
LAWRENCE — Anthony “Papa Delux” W. Stacey, working as an extra in the 2008 movie “Cadillac Records,” swings a block of ice on a delivery truck, evoking images for many of famed R&B singer-composer Jerry “The Iceman” Butler.
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3 Ways Baby Boomers and Seniors are Coping with the Recession (US News & World Report)
Many Americans are becoming more frugal, some people have cracked into their nest egg early
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