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We Are Now The United States Of GoFundMe
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Oct 23, 2020
Gift Guides
Sul Sul! Here Are The Best Gifts For Fans Of The Sims
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Oct 22, 2020
Coronavirus
It’s The Final Countdown: The Stimulus Bill Election Deadline Approaches
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Oct 20, 2020
Work & Money
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
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Work & Money
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
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Taking Stock
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
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Work & Money
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
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Coronavirus
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
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Work & Money
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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Coronavirus
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
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Work & Money
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
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Living
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
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Climate Uprise
Individuals Can’t Heal The Climate When Capitalism Is The V...
It’s time to wake up. On Global Day of Climate Action, VICE Media Group is solely telling stories about our current climate crisis. Click here
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Work & Money
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
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Work & Money
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
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Work & Money
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
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Coronavirus
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
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Coronavirus
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
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Coronavirus
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
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Work & Money
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
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Work & Money
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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Food News
Exclusive Report: Chipotle Pays $46,220 In Pregnancy Discriminati...
2020 has, among many other things, been a case study in the infuriating ways that companies behave badly. There’s been story after story on corporati
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Coronavirus
Can The CDC Save America From An Eviction Crisis?
A CDC order released on Tuesday and effective immediately stops all residential evictions until December 31st, 2020 for people who make $99,000 a year or l
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Food News
In New Lawsuit, 52 Black McDonald’s Franchise Owners Say Th...
Remember the old days, when hearing “you know, that famous McDonald’s lawsuit” made you think of hot coffee? That might soon change. Last night, 52 B
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Coronavirus
What It’s Like To Lose $600: Real Stories From People Survi...
It’s been over a month since tens of millions of Americans saw their weekly income slashed by $600 after the federal unemployment supplement was whisked
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Work & Money
How To Help Someone Financially Without Being Rude (Or Ruining Th...
Helping someone out financially can be hard. Not just because your own budget may be tight, but because money is such an emotionally charged subject. Bring
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Work & Money
Are NBA Players Boycotting Or Striking? Why It’s Important ...
Professional sports are coming to a halt in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, this past Sunday. Blake is currently in t
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Coronavirus
Starbucks Branch Linked To At Least 66 COVID-19 Cases — But Emplo...
While Pumpkin Spice Lattes are officially back in the U.S. and Canada today for the 17th year in a row, a Starbucks in South Korea has been making headline
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Coronavirus
How Much Should You Tip During COVID-19?
The U.S. is an outlier when it comes to the enormous number of places where tipping is expected — restaurants, bars, coffee shops, food delivery, hotels,
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Work & Money
Uber & Lyft Legal Battle Exposes The Big Lie About Gig Work
Today, a California appeals court granted a last-minute extension on a court order that required Uber and Lyft to reclassify its drivers as employees by mi
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