Month: January 2022

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in a discussion during the Library of Congress National Book Festival at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center on Saturday, August 31, 2019. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s expansive personal library sold at auction Thursday for a
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Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images The pandemic has upended millions of American lives, and for many has made them reconsider priorities around work. That’s prompted many to quit jobs amid the so-called Great Resignation. In November, a record 4.5 million workers left their jobs, according to data from the Labor Department. There are also
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Admitting that they expect another chaos-filled filing season, Treasury and the IRS have been vehement (almost rabid) about encouraging taxpayers to file their 2021 tax returns electronically. They have also been encouraging taxpayers who received advance payments of the Child Tax Credit (CTC) to watch for Letter 6419, which reports the amount of the credit
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The numbers are less than encouraging. The trend is even worse. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Job Openings and Labor Turnover Summary released earlier this month, more than four-and-a-half million people quit their jobs in the most recently reported month (November 2021). Specifically, the report says: “Quits are generally voluntary separations initiated
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Former U.K. prime minister and current U.N. special envoy for global education, Gordon Brown, told CNBC that the world must come together to find the $4.4 billion needed to address the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. “I’m asking Britain and Europe, and there are many other people involved in this, to call a humanitarian pledging conference,
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