The top actuaries for Social Security and Medicare testified before a House panel Thursday about the financial woes of two safety net programs that could see key trust funds run out in about a decade, leaving beneficiaries to face with a benefit reduction if the funding gap is not resolved by Congress. The Trustees for Social Security and Medicare recently ...
In New Hampshire’s Squam Lake, a historic summer house with ties to the Titanic is looking for its first new owner in a century. The eight-bedroom, four-bathroom, 5,600-square-foot property sits on 3.8 acres that includes over 960 feet of shoreline, the Wall Street Journal first reported. It’s currently priced at $9.5 million and would break the area record — which ...
Over the next decade, 180,000 new teachers will be needed to meet New York state’s needs, according to Angela Pagano, senior assistant professor of teacher preparation and partnerships for the SUNY systems. “There are several reasons for the lack of education, including retirements – one in three teachers here could retire in the next five years – and teachers who ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has said he is reluctant to lay off employees, choosing instead to “torture them into greatness” – a strategy he claims has turned the company into one of the world’s most valuable . Huang — whose employees can work up to seven days a week, sometimes until 2 a.m., but are said to stick around because ...
What would it take to feel financially prepared? New research has found that the average American feels prepared for the worst after saving $5,078. The survey of 2,000 employed Americans, evenly divided by generation (500 Gen Z, 500 Millennials, 500 Gen X and 500 Baby Boomers) found that Gen Zers need at least $4,286 in their bank account at all ...
Josh Ostrovsky, the entrepreneur and comedian long known as @thefatjewish on Instagram — where he has 9.5 million followers — is listing his midcentury Miami Shores home for $4.25 million. And he’s making quite a profit in the process. Best known for his gravity-defying hairband, Ostrovsky is married to Caitlin King with whom he has a son, Buddy. In 2015, ...
I worked for my organization for two years and twice received a favorable review and a raise. My immediate supervisor, who hired me, was released to return in March. Then they let me go too, since “I did not manage to achieve all the goals required of me”. Do I have any options here? Legal or otherwise? You have no ...
California lawmakers approved a hotly contested artificial intelligence safety bill on Wednesday, after which it will need one more procedural vote before its fate rests in the governor’s hands. Gavin Newsom, who has until September. 30 to decide whether to sign it into law or veto it. Tech companies developing generative artificial intelligence — which can respond to requests with ...
Shane O’Farrell didn’t set out to get rich buying and selling Lego – all the 35-year-old from New Jersey was looking for was a connection to his childhood in Ireland, where the modest Fort Legoredo was one of them. favorite toy. Twenty years later, when he saw the kit going for hundreds more than its 1996 retail price of $85, ...
Home prices hit a new record in June amid a persistent housing shortage, even as high mortgage rates continued to drive away affordability for millions of Americans. Prices rose 5.4% nationally in June from a year earlier, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller index showed on Tuesday, up from a 5.9% pace last month. On a monthly basis, prices rose by 0.2%, ...