"It's time to fund Black feminist movements like we want them to win," supporters of the Black Feminist Fund wrote to other philanthropists.
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TUESDAY, Jan. 31, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The United States spends up to four times more on health care than most wealthy nations, but it doesn't have much to show for it.
The San Antonio Zoo has kept track of the most popular "ex" names over the fundraiser's four years. Here they are.
Wells Fargo is making big changes to its Charlotte office spaces — including a move out of the uptown building that’s served as an East Coast hub for the bank and its predecessor for nearly four decades. The bank will move employees out of the One and Two Wells Fargo Center buildings, according to a memo sent to Charlotte-area employees on Tuesday morning. The changes will impact thousands of ...
A public education advocacy group is urging North Carolina lawmakers to raise salaries for teachers by 24.5% and to follow a court-ordered plan to increase funding for public schools. The Public School Forum of North Carolina put ensuring “fair and competitive compensation for educators” as the top item Tuesday on its list of education priorities for the 2023-24 session of the General ...
Private equity groups are cashing in on rising rates of alcohol and drug addiction in the U.S. But they aren’t necessarily investing in centers with the best treatment standards, and they often cut extra services.
A new graphic novel by Kathleen Founds follows an angst-ridden bear on his quest for mental health treatment. Founds drew on her own experience with bipolar disorder.
If you're planning a trip to Europe this year, you're not alone: Industry mavens are projecting a big year for transatlantic travel. For the most part, traveling to and within Europe is easy, but you need to know a bit before you leave.
A record 11,150 urgent care centers have popped up around the United States and they are growing at 7% a year.
PennyGem’s Elizabeth Keatinge tells us why lattes can be a part of a reasonable monthly budget.
The first month of 2023 has been relatively kind to the stock market, at least compared with 2022. The S&P 500 is up about 4.6% since the beginning of the year.The Federal Open Market Committee, or FOMC, meeting could add to that positive momentum — or derail it. That depends on how much the committee...
Stocks sank Monday as Wall Street prepped for a week full of potentially market-moving events, from decisions on interest rates around the world to earnings reports from the biggest U.S. companies.
See them circling? Feel their gaze?
February mortgage rates forecastMortgage rates could decline in February as the Federal Reserve writes the next chapters of its inflation-busting campaign.The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage hit its January peak in the first week of the year and fell thereafter. It's too early to conclude that the 30-year mortgage has already reached its 2023 zenith, but it's...
Save more, spend less and pay off debt are popular New Year’s resolutions — and perhaps the ones most likely to fall by the wayside a few weeks into the year when reality sets in and expenses derail plans. But an early-in-the-year setback, like paying your health insurance deductible or the credit card bills after...
Many schools on the list are private for-profit schools, which have long been embroiled in accusations of predatory lending behavior. Religious schools and art and design institutions are also frequent additions. Only one school on the list is a public university.
Between financially helping his parents and losing income as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeremy Mazza landed into serious credit card debt. Relief came from a source he wasn’t expecting: his partner, Ginna Lambert, who had come into a small inheritance. She suggested “investing” part of her bounty in their shared future by lending...
A baby spent more than a month in a Chicago NICU. A big bill revealed she was treated by out-of-network doctors from the children’s hospital next door. Her parents were charged despite a state law protecting patients from such out-of-network billing — and sent to collections when they didn’t pay up.
For all the sound and fury about raising the nation's debt limit, most economists say federal borrowing is not at a crisis point — at least not yet.
Since 2013, more than 1 million charities received donations from AmazonSmile, which sent a small portion of a customer's purchase on Amazon to a nonprofit of their choice. Amazon announced that the program will end on Feb. 20.
After much hesitation about how to deal with small and medium-size private enterprises it authorized in 2021, the Cuban government is turning to Russia for help with market reforms.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he's looking forward to discussing with President Joe Biden a “reasonable and responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling” when the two meet Wednesday at the White House.
Here are answers to your EV tax program questions, including why it’s in place, what’s new in 2023 and how to claim your clean vehicle tax credit.
SEATTLE — The transfer portal has changed the college-football landscape, and because of that, high school recruiting has changed too. How much the transfer portal has reduced the opportunity for high school players to get football scholarship offers can be debated. There can also be a debate on what has had the biggest impact on opportunities: the transfer portal that allows players to move ...
“And now, please let me tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away its hedge, and it shall be burned; and break down its wall, a…