Victoria Ortiz was enjoying a turkey leg at a Disneyland France cafe with her husband and son two summers ago when her phone pinged. It was a text message from her boss: “Check your email.� So back at the hotel later that day, she dutifully interrupted her European vacation and fired up her computer. “It’s the rat race for sure � 100 percent the rat race,� Ortiz, 46, an accountant at a San ...

The new Free Application for Federal Student Aid � which launched over the New Year's weekend after a major face-lift that made it less cumbersome to fill out � has finally arrived but with some hiccups. The form was "soft launched," meaning it is only available online for small windows of time, leaving families refreshing browsers and frustrated that they couldn't fill it out at their ...