Photo by Pheelings media / Shutterstock.com Buying and maintaining a home is expensive — and the cost just keeps climbing. Fortunately, Uncle Sam offers several tax breaks that can put more money back in a homeowner’s pocket. Some of these deductions and credits can only be used by a small …
Read More »
It did not take long for Keith Reed, a deputy health commissioner in Oklahoma, to spot a big logistical problem with the state’s vaccination rollout. Week after week, Oklahoma was allocating thousands of precious doses to a federal program for nursing home patients that was not using them all. In …
Read More »
Your home is one of the largest purchases that you’ll make in your life. While buying a new home is a goal for many adults, few people are fortunate enough to be able to pay for a home in cash. If you’re buying a home, you’re probably going to need …
Read More »
Photo by OPOLJA / Shutterstock.com Consumer Reports is criticizing a new federal regulation that it says could leave travelers “more vulnerable to unreasonable flight delays, misleading fare information, and other frustrating industry practices.” On Nov. 27, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a new rule that officially defines two terms …
Read More »
There’s a thread that runs through police violence against Black people and connects to overpolicing, onerous and problematic tactics like facial recognition, AI-powered predictive policing, and federal agencies’ surveillance of protestors. It’s almost a loop; at the very least, it’s a knot. For months, American citizens have tirelessly protested against …
Read More »
The leader of the nation’s coronavirus testing efforts condemned Nevada’s health department on Friday for ordering nursing homes to discontinue two brands of government-issued rapid coronavirus tests that the state had found to be inaccurate. “Bottom line, the recommendations in the Nevada letter are unjustified and not scientifically valid,” Adm. …
Read More »
Whenever the Federal Reserve makes any sort of public statement, you quickly find a bunch of articles that try to outline what that means for the average person in terms of borrowing money and making investment decisions. Even seemingly ordinary news, like the Federal Reserve recently announced that it intends …
Read More »
Approximately 43 million Americans who carry student debt backed by federal government programs can reduce or suspend loan payments until December 31, 2020, based on the latest outline in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Even better? The interest rate on those loans continues to be 0%. [ Read: Best Private Student …
Read More »
WASHINGTON — The coronavirus pandemic remained a distant threat to many Americans on Jan. 24 when Douglas C. Bryant, the president and chief executive officer of Quidel Corporation, got a call from an official at the Food and Drug Administration. If the government helped, the official asked, would Quidel make …
Read More »