Fatcamera | E+ | Getty Images Now that a pandemic-era policy that guaranteed Medicaid enrollees wouldn’t be dropped from their coverage has come to an end, affected parents may be worried about how to keep their children insured. Under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, states were required to provide continuous Medicaid coverage to enrollees in order
Month: May 2023
Our government is currently focusing on the mental health of elders, particularly the loneliness they experience. For those with aging loved ones, pandemic related social isolation exacerbated what was already an underlying problem. Many elders do not have consistent, meaningful connections with enough others to prevent the sadness and hopelessness so many experience every day.
Both the Congressional Budget Office and the Treasury Department warned Monday that the federal government is likely to exhaust its authority to pay its bills on June 1 if Congress fails to raise or suspend the federal debt limit before the end of this month. The fast-approaching deadline, which previous projections placed far later in
In this article YUM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Cars wait in a line at a KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken) drive-thru in Bloomsburg. Paul Weaver | LightRocket | Getty Images Yum Brands on Wednesday reported quarterly earnings that fell short of analysts’ expectations, despite a China sales rebound for KFC and Pizza Hut. Yum joins the
In this article QCOM Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Cristiano Amon, president and CEO of Qualcomm, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference on May 2, 2022, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Qualcomm reported second-quarter earnings on Wednesday that were in line with analyst expectations but saw
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday approved its 10th interest rate increase in just a little over a year and dropped a tentative hint that the current tightening cycle is at an end. In a unanimous decision widely expected by markets, the central bank’s Federal Open Market Committee raised its benchmark borrowing rate by 0.25 percentage
Fotostorm | E+ | Getty Images Most Americans nearing retirement expect Social Security to be their biggest source of income. Yet many of those people, ranging in age from 55 to 65, are unaware of the basics about the program, according to new research from MassMutual. About 43% of the 1,500 people surveyed do not
A group of Senators is urging the IRS to take action on the potential use of artificial intelligence (AI) in scams targeted at taxpayers and tax professionals. The four Senators, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and James Lankford (R-Okla.), sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel warning about the use
The observation that “Water is life,” attributed to UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Audrey Hepburn, expresses its importance to human survival. We need clean water to drink and to wash our hands to deter germ spread. But water can also enhance our health as part of our home environments, and is an increasingly popular architectural feature for
In this article LLY Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT An Eli Lilly and Company pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is pictured at 50 ImClone Drive in Branchburg, New Jersey, March 5, 2021. Mike Segar | Reuters The Alzheimer’s treatment donanemab, which is made by Eli Lilly, significantly slowed progression of the mind-robbing disease, according to clinical
In this article QSR QSR-CA Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT In this photo illustration, a Burger King Whopper hamburger is displayed on April 05, 2022 in San Anselmo, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Restaurant Brands International on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and revenue that topped analysts’ expectations, fueled by double-digit same-store sales growth at Tim
In this article GNRC CCOI PACW Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT general view of a Starbucks store on September 15, 2022 in Plainview, New York Bruce Bennett | Getty Images News | Getty Images Check out the companies making headlines in premarket trading. Eli Lilly — The pharmaceutical stock rose more than 5% on
Some consider April 5 equal pay day for Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women, marking the point into the new year that the average AAPI woman has to work to make the same pay white men earned in 2022. In other words, an AAPI woman has to work 15 months to earn what
“I’m scared about my investments due to recent stock market declines, high inflation, and the jump in interest rates. Where do you think the markets are headed right now?” This question was posed to me at a recent lunch I had with a retiree in her late 70s. “To be perfectly honest, I don’t know,”
The numbers are eye-opening. 288 arrests. 117 firearms. 850 kilograms of drugs. $53.4 million in cash and virtual currencies. That was the impact of Operation SpecTor, a coordinated international effort targeting fentanyl and opioid trafficking on the dark web, or darknet. Dark Web The dark web lives up to its name—it describes internet sites that
While builders struggle to bring new housing online, the rest of the country’s housing stock is aging. Of the approximately 124 million housing units, the ABC Collaborative counts more than 21 million single family homes that were built before 1980 that need a retrofit, spurring a huge new industry focused on energy improvements. Energy retrofits
In this article F Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Ford Mustang Mach-E is presented at the New York International Auto Show, in Manhattan, New York City, April 5, 2023. David Dee Delgado | Reuters DETROIT – Ford Motor is once again cutting the starting prices of its electric Mustang Mach-E by thousands of dollars,
In this article AMD Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT AMD Chair and CEO Dr. Lisa Su delivers a keynote address at CES 2023 at The Venetian Las Vegas on January 04, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Becker | Getty Images AMD reported better-than-expected revenue and earnings for the first quarter, but the stock
Michael Milken, Chairman of the Milken Institute, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, on May 2, 2022. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) Patrick T. Fallon | Afp | Getty Images Famed investor Michael Milken said Tuesday that the current banking
A pedestrian wearing a face masks crosses an empty street amid the coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco, California. Liu Guanguan | China News Service via Getty Images New York and California lost over $90 billion in income during Covid as taxpayers moved to other states, accelerating the trend of high-earners relocating to lower-tax areas. New