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Local attorney accused of stealing $1.2M from clients By CHELSEA McDOUGALL
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Curious preschool students at Sage YMCA peer into the camera lens. The cost of raising a newborn is steadily increasing, according to the USDA. A middle-income family will spend $241,080 total on average over the next 18 years to raise a child born in 2012.
Report: Cost of raising a child born in 2012 is more than $240,000 By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com
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middle-income family can expect to spend $241,080 over the next 18 years on housing, food, education and other essentials to raise a child born in 2012. That’s a 2.6 percent increase from last year, according to a report from the U.S. Agriculture Department conducted annually that is intended to give families a sense of the cost of raising a child. Housing expenses represented 30 percent of that $241,080 total, with child care and education covering 18 percent and food representing 16 percent. The 2.6 increase from 2011 to 2012 outdoes the broader inflation rate for goods and services. With a fragile economic recovery, a couple just starting to raise a family should especially be mindful of the increasing cost to raise a child in 2012, said Virginia Peschke, executive director of the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of McHenry County. “The best thing people can do is work out a budget,” Peschke said.
one man and $468,475.99 from another. In total, there are eight alleged victims. Rehberg, an attorney who specializes in estates, was the executor of several trust fund accounts that did not distribute cash to the beneficiaries. “His clients asked for their money and he didn’t have it; the money’s no longer there,” Assistant State’s Attorney Michael Combs said. “Presumably, he spent it or transferred it to some other account.”
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U.S. government shutdown begins By DAVID ESPO The Associated Press
Preschool students Stephen Jessogne and Jadlyn Kinney work on a craft project at the Sage YMCA. “People are always amazed to find where they are leaking money.” Peschke and her counselors assist many couples in their early 30s who often are seeking advice as they move from renting to owning a home to
make room for newborns. Many of the child-rearing costs detailed in the USDA report likely will start to escalate when children enter
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THE COST OF RAISING A CHILD • Low-income parents earning less than $60,640 a year can expect to spend $173,490 total during the next 18 years on a child born in 2012. • Middle-income parents ($60,640 to $105,000) are projected to spend $241,080 total.
WOODSTOCK – A Crystal Lake-based attorney has been charged with embezzling more than $1.2 million of his client’s money. Curt P. Rehberg, 49, of 1708 Mink Trail, Cary, was charged with seven counts of theft. He was ar- Curt P. rested at his Rehberg home Friday without incident and posted $10,000 cash to be released from Crystal Lake police custody, Cmdr. Dan Dziewior said. In one case, he’s accused of pilfering $524,836.94 from
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• High-income parents (more than $105,000) are projected to spend $399,780. Middle-income families can expect to spend $241,080 on: housing (30 percent), child care/education (18 percent), food (16 percent), transportation
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(14 percent), health care (8 percent), miscellaneous (8 percent) and clothing (6 percent).
Source: U.S. Agriculture Department’s “Expenditures on Children by Families” report
WASHINGTON – For the first time in nearly two decades, the federal government staggered into a partial shutdown Monday at midnight after congressional Republicans stubbornly demanded John changes in the Boehner, nation’s health R-Ohio care law as the price for essential federal funding and President Barack Obama and Democrats adamantly refused. As Congress gridlocked, Obama said a “shutdown will have a very real economic impact on real people, right away,” with hundreds of thousands of federal workers furloughed and veterans’ centers,
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SERVICES MAY EXPAND IN DISTRICTS 47, 155
Grafton Township officials have given Rutland Township an ultimatum regarding Grafton’s effort to shed a portion of the $80,000 spent to operate its bus service. Rutland officials would either have to contribute $24,000 by Nov. 30 to help fund the service or risk leaving many Rutland riders without transportation. For more, see page B1.
School Districts 47 and 155 were awarded a $50,000 grant to outfit their buses with state-of-the-art GPS software last November. Kathy Anes, director of transportation for Districts 47 and 155, said there is some grant money left over to expand the program, and officials would meet in November to discuss options. For more, see page B1.
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national parks, most of the space agency and other government operations shuttered. He laid the blame at the feet of House Republicans, whom he accused of seeking to tie government funding to ideological demands, “all to save face after making some impossible promises to the extreme right wing of their party.” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, responded a short while later on the House floor. “The American people don’t want a shutdown and neither do I,” he said. Yet, he added, the new health care law “is having a devastating impact. ... Something has to be done.” The stock market dropped on fears that political deadlock between the White House and a tea party-heavy Republican Party would prevail, though analysts suggested significant
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