Black Borrowers In St. Louis Face Lending Discrimination, High Mortgage Rejection Rates Patricia Dees is losing patience. Over the past two years, Dees and her partner, Damon Giboney, have gone to lender after lender, trying to get a loan to renovate a family home in north St. Louis. Their applications have been denied — and […]
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Student Loan Payment Pause
What Can Student Loan Borrowers Do When The Payment Pause Ends The payment pause and interest waiver in the CARES Act, passed in March, suspends the need to make payments on certain federal student loans, through September 30, 2020. What happens when the payment pause ends and borrowers still don’t have jobs? Are there any […]
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Virus From Pigs??
There’s a dangerous virus brewing in pigs—but there’s no need to panic yet We first learned about COVID-19 when headlines proclaimed that the virus was already spreading like wildfire amongst humans. But what if there was a way to catch these viruses before they become efficiently transmissible between humans? In a study published last month […]
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Best For Blue Collar
The 10 Best U.S. Cities for Blue-Collar Workers Day in and day out you wear yourself out for the betterment of the country. Whether you’re fighting fires or constructing a new hospital building, your skills in manual labor benefit the community. Now, it’s no secret blue-collar workers work hard at their jobs. What they shouldn’t […]
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Minority-Owned Business State Support
Most Supportive States for Black-Owned Businesses With African Americans occupying 13% of the U.S. population, it’s shocking that only 7% of the country’s businesses are black-owned. Recent events have led to a nationwide push to support black-owned businesses so we wanted to find out what states support a thriving environment for black-owned businesses. The Most […]
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Senior Part-Time Jobs
20 Great Part-Time Jobs for Retirees For a myriad of reasons, many seniors and retirees are staying in or jumping back into the job world. Our News reports that by 2028 nearly a quarter of folks 65 and older will be working. Reasons include staving off boredom and loneliness, saving for big expenses, paying off […]
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Evictions
A Lot of Americans Are About to Lose Their Homes Without intervention, the COVID-19-induced economic crisis is in danger of becoming a housing crisis. Data on rent payments are hard to come by, but one survey has found that a third of Americans say they failed to make a full housing payment in June. By […]
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Senior Social Security Taxed
Half of Retirees Now Pay Taxes on Their Social Security Having Social Security taxes taken from your paycheck is bad enough. But for millions of Americans, the obligations don’t end there. Half of retirees say they paid income taxes on their Social Security benefit income during the 2019 tax year, according to a survey by […]
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Coronavirus Mutation
This coronavirus mutation has taken over the world. Scientists are trying to understand why. Health-care workers from University of South Florida Health administer coronavirus testing June 25 at a community center in Tampa. When the first coronavirus cases in Chicago appeared in January, they bore the same genetic signatures as a germ that emerged in […]
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Federal Police Empire
The Story Behind Bill Barr’s Unmarked Federal Agents “A police state is not a pretty site” Few sights from the nation’s protests in recent days have seemed more dystopian than the appearance of rows of heavily-armed riot police around Washington in drab military-style uniforms with no insignia, identifying emblems or name badges. Many of the […]