Month: April 2023

Why are there significant differences in U.S. life expectancies by state? Answers to this question can potentially be found by digging into the underlying influences on life expectancies, which are a basic measurement of well-being in a broad population. The life expectancies discussed in this post were published by the CDC in January 2023 and
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Before becoming a billionaire, Mark Cuban slummed it in an apartment with five other guys, sleeping on the floor and using “nasty” towels taken from a Motel 6. Those circumstances may seem pretty bleak, but they’re exactly what drove Cuban to put his all into entrepreneurship. “When your back’s against the wall, you’re sleeping on
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Nicole Chung Source: Carletta Girma In author Nicole Chung’s new memoir, “A Living Remedy,” she tells the story of watching both her parents die in the span of two years. It was all the more painful because of her mother and father’s inability to afford the medical treatments they needed. Chung blames the country’s broken
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For most computer literate elders, online shopping is a great convenience and is usually fine. Until something goes wrong, that is. With an aging parent who is a little confused, or who has memory problems, online purchases can become a trap. While most purchases go as planned, one can understand that sometimes the wrong thing
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A gated 75-acre estate in the heart of Bedminster, New Jersey, hunt country can accommodate an array of equestrian pursuits, with multiple riding arenas and thoughtfully designed modern barns surrounded by meticulously detailed landscaping. The gated estate sits on approximately 75 acres in the affluent New Jersey community known for its … [+] equestrian community.
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In this article AAL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT American airlines planes are seen at San Francisco International Airport (SFO) in San Francisco, California, United States on September 15, 2022. Tayfun Toskun | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images American Airlines is getting rid of its traditional frequent flyer award chart as the carrier moves
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Barbara Corcoran doesn’t gravitate toward confident people. Instead, she wants to work with people who have ideas and insecurities — because someone who knows what they don’t know is more likely to succeed than someone who thinks they have all the answers. “The more successful someone is, the more self-doubt they have, because that’s what
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In this article Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ramona Persaud Source: Fidelity The broader market suffered in 2022 as the Federal Reserve embarked on its rate-hiking campaign. Amid the tumult, the Fidelity Equity-Income Fund (FEQIX) outperformed the broader market with a total return of -5.07% – the result of portfolio manager Ramona Persaud’s search
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AscentXmedia | E+ | Getty Images Social Security and Medicare face an uncertain future, based on new annual reports from the programs’ trustees that were released last week. “Insolvency is in the near horizon,” said Marc Goldwein, senior vice president at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, during a panel hosted by the non-partisan,
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The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration—or TIGTA—has released its audit of the IRS’s 2022 Filing Season. The purpose of the review was to evaluate “whether the IRS timely and accurately processed individual paper and electronically filed tax returns during the 2022 Filing Season.” It will surprise no one to hear that TIGTA concluded that
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