The housing market is in a strange place right now. Interest rates for 30-year fixed mortgages are below 3%. This is good news for potential homebuyers since lower interest rates translate to paying less in interest on their home loans over time. On the other hand, the current home shortage …
Read More »Photo by Krakenimages.com / Shutterstock.com No, it’s not your imagination — prices are shooting higher at the grocery store. In fact, in April the index for food eaten at home posted its biggest monthly rise since February 1974, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Food costs are rising …
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For women, the topic of pay inequality has another side. You may have heard of the pink tax, which is the practice of charging more for products that are marketed towards women. It’s a relatively innocent name for the fundamentally discriminatory phenomena of gender being unnecessarily impressed on products like …
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