What ’60 Minutes’ didn’t say about Amazon and Seattle’s homelessness crisis The tent cities that sprung up in the shadows of some of the world’s wealthiest tech companies landed on “60 Minutes” on Sunday night after CBS News anchor Anderson Cooper traveled to Seattle to report on its homelessness crisis. The piece focused on people […]

Trump Proposes Social Security Change That Could End Disability Benefits for Hundreds of Thousands Activists are working to raise public awareness and outrage over a little-noticed Trump administration proposal that could strip life-saving disability benefits from hundreds of thousands of people by further complicating the way the Social Security Administration determines who is eligible for […]

Retirees Who Blow This Tax Deadline Risk a Big, Fat Penalty Many retirees who turned 70½ years old prior to the start of 2019 are up against a potentially costly tax deadline. Folks that age who own certain types of retirement accounts generally must withdraw what the IRS calls “required minimum distributions,” or RMDs, by […]

Student Loans A Lot Like The Subprime Mortgage Debacle “Mr. Calhoun rang the alarm bell early on about the subprime mortgage debacle — before reckless lending drove the economy into recession. These days, he’s sounding the alarm about student loans as well” Mike Calhoun is a man on a mission. He’s flying around the country, […]

New Orleans Declares State Of Emergency Following Cyber Attack “Another major American City being Cyber attaked, this is no long something that we can place as isolated incidents. With our upcoming 2020 election we should be almost in a panic state. The callousness of our legislature and executive branch of government is alarming at least. […]

After bipartisan pushback, Trump ditches effort to kill major federal agency “Office of Personnel & Management” has been a part of the Federal System of Human Resources for generations and have been the stopgap for problems of personnel complaints when federal agencies try to misuse federal employees. To take this agency away would have been […]

Israeli scientists found a way to treat deadly pancreatic cancer in 14 days!! WOW A new treatment developed by Tel Aviv University could induce the destruction of pancreatic cancer cells, eradicating the number of cancerous cells by up to 90% after two weeks of daily injections of a small molecule known as PJ34. Pancreatic cancer […]

Payday Lenders Use Installment Loans To Evade Regulations Installment loans seem like a kinder, gentler version of their “predatory” cousin, the payday loan. But for consumers, they may be even more harmful. Use of the installment loan, in which a consumer borrows a lump sum and pays back the principal and interest in a series […]

3 Major Medicare Costs Will Jump in January Health care already accounts for more than 10% of spending by senior households, on average. And 2020 brings more bad news for the pocketbooks of seniors on Original Medicare. Several premiums and deductibles for folks on the traditional, government-managed type of Medicare will increase in the new […]

They Loan You Money. Then They Get A Warrant For Your Arrest The presence of 417 payday and title loan stores in Utah — more than the number of McDonald’s, 7-Eleven, Burger King and Subway stores combined — is symptomatic of an age in which financial precariousness is widespread. Across the country, wages have stagnated […]