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Why Are Some People So Upset About Canceling Student Debt?

Working Parents Are Breaking Down. Why Aren’t We Helping Them?

‘Tis The Season To Argue During Family Gatherings — But This Year, At Least We ...

The Most Expensive Election In History: Breaking Down The Money S...

It’s been a record election cycle for many reasons — including the fact that it’s the most expensive, bar none. According to the Center for Responsiv

Will A Contested Election Affect The Stock Market? Here’s W...

Financial experts often say that the stock market hates uncertainty — and the 2020 election has been nothing if not uncertain, especially now, as we cont

The Best Gifts For Someone Looking For A New Job

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The Future Of Work Is On The Ballot In California

What do you see when you imagine the future of work? Is it all robots and AI? Are people only working four days a week? Predictions of how we’ll work ten

Today Is Latinx Women’s Equal Pay Day. Here’s Everyth...

October 29th is Latinx Women’s Equal Pay Day. But what is Equal Pay Day, and what does it mean for the state of the gender and racial pay gap?

Gen Z Isn’t Just Job Hunting — They’re Taking Aim At Why We Work

Searching for your first professional job during an economic downturn so severe it’s being compared to the Great Depression is bad enough, but doing so d

We Are Now The United States Of GoFundMe

GoFundMe is known for adapting the age-old concept of fundraising to the social media era — through its service, you can share your fundraiser to all the

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It’s The Final Countdown: The Stimulus Bill Election Deadli...

On Sunday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said on ABC that lawmakers have until the end of Tuesday (as in, today) to hash out a deal if they want to pas

Gen Z Is In An Underemployment Crisis — The Consequences Could Be...

The coronavirus pandemic has left the economy and job market in shambles, as entire industries came to a sudden stall beginning in March. Around 12.6 milli

Is Your Boss Giving You Time Off To Vote? How Nice Of Them

Everywhere we turn lately, there’s one message we can’t avoid: Vote. Sometimes it’s even dramatized to the false choice, “Vote or die.” With such

COVID-19 Doom-Shopping Is Real: “I Get Anxiety About Not Buying T...

Welcome to Taking Stock, a space where we can take a deep breath and try to figure out what the COVID-19 economy really means for our finances. Every month

Welp, Yelp Is Warning For Racist Businesses & People Are Mad

What do you usually look for when you want a new restaurant to try? Maybe somewhere close to you, with a good menu, a nice ambience, affordable prices, and

The Stimulus Bill Is Back On

Surprise, surprise. Less than 48 hours after dramatically decreeing that he was striking down stimulus bill negotiations until after he “won” the elect

Amid Illness, Trump Blocks Stimulus Talks Until After The Election

After leaving Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last night, President Trump resumed his usual pace of tweeting today as he continues to recover

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Almost 20,000 Amazon Workers Have Had COVID-19 Since March

This past Thursday, during possibly one of the most hectic news weeks of the year, Amazon published a blog post announcing their dedication to more compreh

Does Anyone Know Where Our Stimulus Money Is?

This week has been even more chaotic than usual. And given the events of this year, that’s saying something. First, there was an agonizing presidential d

Donald Trump Paid Just $750 In Federal Income Taxes — Is That Eve...

Nothing unites a nation like realizing we’ve paid more taxes than our billionaire president has. On Sunday, the New York Times released a report on o

Individuals Can’t Heal The Climate When Capitalism Is The V...

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It’s A Hard Time To Be Job Hunting, But Here’s How Yo...

Since the middle of March, as coronavirus lockdowns began, the unemployment rate has remained high. It surged to over 14% in April, as more and more indus

Living With Student Debt: “No Way Out Unless I Win The Lott...

Welcome to Taking Stock, a space where we can take a deep breath and try to figure out what the COVID-19 economy really means for our finances. Every month

WFH WTF: JPMorgan CEO Says Young Employees Working From Home Slac...

There’s no COVID-19 vaccine yet, but some CEOs seem to be itching to have employees within their sights again. According to Bloomberg, in a recent meetin

Whole Foods Workers Face Harsher Attendance Policy Amid COVID-19

Amid a pandemic that has killed almost 200,000 people in the U.S., when it’s likelier than ever that essential workers may need to call off from work, fo

The Price Is Not Right: Amazon Sellers Gouged Prices By As Much A...

In the early days of the pandemic, a Tennessee man who hoarded over 17,000 bottles of hand sanitizer to sell at extremely hiked prices on Amazon became the

Yikes, Trump’s Unemployment Money Is Already Gone In Some S...

Back in early August, Congress couldn’t agree on the next stimulus bill before its month-long recess — Democrats wanted it beefy, providing a lot more

Trump Banned White Privilege Training — Now Scholars Are On Strike

It’s been a year of historic labor strikes, and another major strike action started this week. Yesterday and today, members of academia across higher

There’s Work To Be Done This Labor Day

It’s almost Labor Day, which usually means it’s time to snag some retail deals, attend a backyard barbecue (socializing, is that still a concep

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