Many Americans increased their alcohol intake during the pandemic, with women and parents of young children disproportionately affected. For most of her life, Andrea Carbone, a 51-year-old paralegal living in Florida, wasn’t a big drinker. But when the pandemic struck, she worried constantly about her job, her health and the …
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Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | RadioPublic | Stitcher | RSS Not too long ago, a conservative investor could easily earn 5% in an insured bank account, or 8% on risk-free Treasury bills. But as today’s savers are only too well aware, those days are long gone. …
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Photo by VH-studio / Shutterstock.com Most people know about food banks and food stamps. In 2020 alone, the nonprofit Feeding America distributed 7.5 billion pounds of food through its food-bank network, and 19 million households benefited from the federal food stamp program (now officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance …
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It’s not a secret that the cost of college is incredibly high. U.S. News and World Report slices up the cost of college in several ways, pointing out that in-state tuition and fees alone average more than $ 11,000 per year for a four-year public university. Much of that is …
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Join Transform 2021 for the most important themes in enterprise AI & Data. Learn more. The pandemic has transformed how people work, forcing human resources leaders to bet on AI and other new technologies and processes that support a more adaptive, flexible, and fluid workforce. There have been “seismic shifts” …
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Photo by pathdoc / Shutterstock.com When it comes to planning for retirement, Americans have some basic facts wrong. In fact, shockingly wrong. Fidelity Investments’ 2021 State of Retirement Planning Study revealed three huge misunderstandings about investing and retirement that working-age Americans widely share. All of these errors could prove costly …
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Dragon Images / Shutterstock.com Besides the third round of stimulus payments, multiple expanded tax credits for parents are perhaps the most widely known provisions of the COVID-19 relief bill that President Joe Biden signed into law on March 11. But the expansive legislation, formally known as the American Rescue Plan …
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When you’re buying a home or refinancing your current mortgage, your interest rate is one of the most important factors to pay attention to. And if you negotiate a lower interest rate, you can save thousands of dollars over the course of your loan. If you’ve shopped for loans before, …
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After a year of COVID shutdowns and restrictions leading to a general economic slowdown and unemployment for many Americans, the government is making an effort to jumpstart the economy by distributing a third stimulus check to American families, this time even larger than before. The goal? Help people get back …
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