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There are 195 countries (depending on your definition of a country) in the world with 195 different sets of federal-level laws. Of those, only 9 countries do not guarantee paid parental leave for either the mother or father of a newborn. The U.S. is one of those nine and there is no current legislation going…
In 2022, faced with major credit issues due to ballooning student loan payments and COVID related economic problems, the Department of Education began a program they dubbed “Fresh Start”. This program basically erased student loan defaults from millions of borrowers’ credit reports and moved them into a “current” status. The program also allowed borrowers to…
The recent executive order signed by President Trump, authorizing what is essentially a heavy dismantling of the Department of Education, is supposed to be about saving the taxpayers money and returning power to the states. Diving deep into the numbers, it looks like if the E.O. is carried out to the most extreme limits, it…
Personnel cuts have been (and are still being) implemented across the Federal government for the last two months. Getting rid of actual government bloat isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but completely eviscerating whole programs and government sectors is not the way to do it. Enter California Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren who introduced 5 bills this week…
2025 has not been a good year for the stock market as inflation proves to be far more sticky than what it appeared to be 6 months ago. What’s just as concerning is the recent stock market drop which doesn’t show any sign of slowing down as we prepare to enter the second quarter of…
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