One of my favorite memories from family medicine residency in New York was prescribing abortion pills to a patient’ s family member. At the end of the visit, they looked up from their seat.“ Dr. Since finishing residency and moving to Pennsylvania, my abortion care looks different.
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Inflation in the United States has cooled considerably since its four-decade peak of 9.1% in June 2022. And while today’ s 3.2% is still higher than the Federal Reserve's goal of 2%, it’ s a good time for investors to take stock and possibly make adjustments should cooling continue and interest rates drop. “Policy changes necessitate inflection points,” said…
But in the era of Federal Reserve rate increases and brick-and-mortar banks offering yields that are much lower than yields at many online banks, this comfort may be costing you money. Typically, banks with high-yielding accounts will increase APYs when the Federal Reserve raises rates, and lower APYs when the Fed decreases rates. Let's say you have saved…
Idaho’ s employers are being encouraged to use a digital process to respond to unemployment claims. On April 3, the Idaho Department of Labor reminded employers that its SIDES platform is the best way to respond to such claims in order to prevent and detect fraudulent claims. “When a business enrolls in SIDES E-Response, all separation requests are sent…
A 38-year-old Bridgewater man obtained more than $1.2 million while portraying himself as a "successful investor in publicly traded securities."
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When it comes to retirement planning, much of the focus usually rests on the actions you have to take to prepare a nest egg for your golden years. But what if your retirement savings run out before you do? This is where the concept of longevity risk comes into play. Longevity risk is a growing concern as life expectancies in certain countries and regions continue to rise. Let’s…
"I had more than $42,000 worth of credit card debt, and I had other debt, too. But the credit card rates had the highest interest rates, "said Julie, who lives in Flatwoods, Kentucky, and asked not to be identified. The latest figures from the New York Federal Reserve show Americans held a staggering $1.13 trillion in credit card balances in the fourth quarter of 2023, and…
NEW YORK- Donald Trump posted a $175 million bond on Monday in his New York civil fraud case, halting collection of the more than $454 million he owes and preventing the state from seizing his assets to satisfy the debt while he appeals, according to a court filing. A New York appellate court had given the former president 10 days to put up the money after a panel of…
The Virginia- based company was sued in 2021 for actions such as forcing customers to sign contracts in English and threatening them with deportation if they did not pay a monthly fee. As reported by the Washington Post, Judge Elizabeth K. Dillon ruled that Libre by Nexus must pay more than $811 million in restitution and penalties, the result of a lawsuit brought…
As former president Donald Trump struggled last month to post a bond for more than $450 million to keep authorities from seizing his properties, California billionaire Don Hankey and his wife, Debbi, started discussing a solution: Hankey's business could cover it. Hankey, a Trump supporter who made a fortune providing high-interest auto loans to customers…
Katheryn Houghton| KFF Health News. Guardian Group Montana, which owns three small facilities in rural Montana, relies on the government health insurance to cover its care of low-income residents. Montana officials finished their initial checks of who qualifies for Medicaid in January, less than a year after the federal government lifted a freeze on…
On Monday night, it emerged that the only group willing to loan Trump a dime to cover the $175 million bond from his New York bank fraud trial is a company owned by the so-called“ king of subprime car loans,” billionaire Don Hankey.. Hankey owns Knight Specialty Insurance Company, the group that underwrote Trump’ s bond, and is also believed to be the largest shareholder…
No one would have guessed that in retirement, Judi and David Koncak would be nearly out of money and unable to leave their kids much more than a pittance. "I thought we'd spend our golden years sitting on a beach in Hawaii with Mai Tais, even if in wheelchairs," said Judi Koncak, 83.. Now she's back at work part time earning about $15 an hour, selling items on Marketplace "for…
August Johansen looks through the glass door of the birthday venue while cradling a balloon on Dec. 9, 2023. He had inoperable brain cancer and depended on Medicaid to pay for full-time home nursing care from a private agency to help his mother take care of him throughout years of health crises. Last December, he became one of 810,000 children dropped from Texas’ Medicaid program…
WASHINGTON- A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve slipped last month in a sign that price pressures continue to ease. The government reported Friday that prices rose 0.3% from January to February, decelerating from a 0.4% increase the previous month in a potentially encouraging trend for President Joe Biden's reelection bid.
WASHINGTON A measure of inflation that is closely tracked by the Federal Reserve slipped last month in a sign that price pressures continue to ease. The government reported Friday that prices rose 0.3% from January to February, decelerating from a 0.4% increase the previous month in a potentially encouraging trend for President Joe Biden’ s re-election bid.
The Federal Reserve has kept interest rates unchanged, but officials are maintaining their forecast of three rate cuts this year. "Any of your assets, your retirement savings that are invested in the stock market or in similar instruments now have greater value than they did even, say, at the first of the year," said David John, a senior policy adviser with AARP.
Last month, the US Senate passed a resolution saying the over $34 trillion national debt threatens national security. The CBO estimates that, unless Congress cuts spending, by 2051 interest on the debt will exceed not just military spending but spending on the two biggest items in the federal budget— Social Security and Medicare. The large and growing interest…