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Six weeks before the midterm elections, President Joe Biden will spotlight Medicare and Social Security, two hot-button issues that could have a big impact on upcoming elections. His speech at the White House came a few days after the House Republicans unveiled their plan for if voters give them power in November. In that plan, the popular programs got little to no attention. Both Medicare and Social Security will have trouble paying for themselves in the long run. Most of the solutions Democrats have come up with involve raising taxes on people with higher incomes while also expanding benefits. Republicans say that Democrats’ recent efforts to lower the cost of prescription drugs are putting more pressure on Medicare. As part of a plan to keep Medicare and Social Security going without raising taxes, many Republicans have supported raising the age at which you can get Medicare and the age at which you can retire on Social Security. Because the government spends more on Social S...

As Amazon continues to develop its robot technology, it appears to be moving closer to achieving the dream of having robots perform tasks just as well as humans. A recent video shows a robotic arm that can pick up objects weighing hundreds of pounds. It might be able to replace some human warehouse workers someday or make their jobs easier. With so many companies competing for customer attention, it makes sense that retailers would want to automate their operations as much as they possibly can. According to internal research, if the company did not make a number of significant changes, such as boosting automation in its warehouses, it could not have enough workers to hire in the US by 2024. At the same time, the company faces the prospect of its employees starting to organize and potentially strike, labor activists have long suspected that Amazon may be trying to increase its use of automated technology to prevent any potential strikes from disrupting operations. The company’s di...

President Joe Biden’s decision to eliminate student loan debt for millions of borrowers and postpone loan payments, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office, will cost the federal government $400 billion over the following 30 years. Although the majority of the economic effects will be felt during the following decade, the analysis estimated the cost over a 30-year period. The nonpartisan CBO says that Biden’s executive action in August, which erased up to $20,000 in student loan debt for Pell Grant recipients and $10,000 for other borrowers, will cost about $400 billion. The CBO’s report says that Biden’s plan to put off student loan payments until the end of the year will cost an extra $20 billion. Estimates are “highly uncertain,” the CBO warned. Phillip Swagel, who is in charge of the CBO, said that it is not clear how much student loan borrowers would have to pay back if Biden’s action hadn’t been taken compared to how much they will have to pay back because...

Hurricane Ian is heading straight for the coast of Florida. By Monday night, it is expected to be a Category 3 storm with winds of up to 129 miles per hour.  Evacuations have already started. But Ian isn’t just a threat because of the wind and rain. Florida’s population has been growing over the past few years, and some of the biggest increases have been in cities like Tampa and Miami, which are close to the coast and vulnerable to storms. Hurricane forecasters are getting better, but as these storms get stronger and more people to move to places where they are more likely to happen, they are upending more people and destroying more property. What’s A Storm Surge? Storm surge is when the winds of a hurricane raise the water level and push it inland, causing flooding. This is the most dangerous part of a hurricane most of the time. When combined with up to 10 inches of rain, Ian’s floodwaters could last for days. Climate change is making these effects are getting worse. R...

Key Takeaways: Pain and suffering include physical and mental injuries suffered by accident victims. Pain and suffering damages are typically calculated using the multiplier method. To prove pain and suffering damages, you should work closely with a personal injury attorney. In a personal injury accident, pain and suffering are the physical and mental injuries suffered by an accident victim. A personal injury lawyer knows about these types of damages and how to get them in a claim or lawsuit for personal injury. If you’ve been in a traumatic car accident , you might not only be in pain but also feel things like depression or anxiety. You might feel things you’ve never felt before that just won’t go away. We will learn more about pain and suffering after an accident in the article below. Table of Contents You May Be Able to Collect Economic and Non-Economic Damages What Is Pain and Suffering? Physical Pain and Suffering Emotional Pain and Suffering Calculatin...

White House officials spent most of their time this year planning a careful, step-by-step plan that they hoped would help the U.S. get out of its COVID-19 pandemic era. One thing that wasn’t in the plan was for President Joe Biden to say they were out of it. President Biden’s sudden announcement that the coronavirus pandemic is “over” has made it harder for the White House to get more money to fight the virus and convince people to get a new booster shot. It has also given Republicans more reasons to criticize the administration for continuing to extend a COVID “emergency.” Biden’s comments, which aired Sunday on “60 Minutes,” reflect that more and more people think the virus is less of a threat, even though hundreds of Americans still die every day from COVID. According to an Axios-Ipsos poll that came out last week, 46% of Americans have returned to their lives before the pandemic. This is the most people who have answered this way since the pollsters started asking this questi...

Family Dollar recently recalled several kinds of Colgate toothpaste and mouthwash because stores in more than one state did not keep them at the right temperature. This comes after the franchise owned by Dollar Tree voluntarily recalled over-the-counter medicines last month. Some of these products, like Clearblue pregnancy tests, Trojan condoms, and Polident denture products, also failed to meet temperature requirements. The Food and Drug Administration put out both recall notices on September 16, and by Tuesday, September 20, they were the most-searched terms on Google. They didn’t say what temperature the products were kept at or how long they had been there on either notice. But Family Dollar said that it hasn’t heard of any complaints or reports of illness from customers about the Colgate products or the over-the-counter medicines. The recall of over-the-counter products was done “out of an abundance of caution,” the company said in a letter. “Family Dollar has told the affe...

Something’s not adding up. During the pandemic, consumer credit has held up very well, and household debt has gone down. Credit card balances have gone down even for people who have lost jobs or been hurt financially in other ways because of the recession. Consumer Reports says, though, that Americans are on track to set a record this year for the number of complaints about credit report inaccuracies that they send to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In 2020 and 2021, a non-profit consumer advocacy group found that a little more than half of the complaints sent to the federal agency were about credit score errors and concerns. But in the first half of this year, three-quarters of all complaints were about credit report errors. “Mistakes on credit reports are all too common and can have serious consequences, especially for those who are already struggling to make ends meet,” Consumer Reports policy analyst Syed Ejaz said in a statement. “No one should have to pay to access...

California is suing Seattle-based Amazon, saying that the company broke the state’s antitrust and unfair competition laws by stifling competition and doing things that make sellers on other sites keep their prices high. Rob Bonta, the attorney general of California, says that Amazon uses contract provisions to stop third-party sellers and wholesale suppliers from lowering prices for products on non-Amazon sites, even on their own sites. The complaint says that this makes it harder for other stores to compete. California filed the 84-page lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on Wednesday. It is similar to a complaint that the District of Columbia filed last year, which was thrown out by a district judge earlier this year and is now being appealed. But officials in California say they don’t think they will have the same problem. This is because they have information from a more than two-year investigation that included subpoenas and interviews with sellers, Amazon’s competitors,...

Key Takeaways: Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, sent a plane full of migrants to the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard. It looks like the goal was to put some of the burden of immigration on an affluent, liberal area. The local community stepped up and provided support for the migrants. Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, kept his promise to send undocumented immigrants to other states by sending two planes full of people to the island of Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday. The news shocked a Massachusetts resort area where rich and powerful people like former President Barack Obama have made home. The migrants from Florida got off the planes at Martha’s Vineyard Airport and were seen waiting on the tarmac. The Cape Cod Times said the migrants were put on a plane with nothing but a brochure from the island’s community services center, about two miles from the airport. Officials said that the people then walked from the airport to the center. On the island, the influx...

The eccentric rock climber Yvon Chouinard, who founded Patagonia 50 years ago and used his unconventional view of capitalism to grow it into a billion-dollar firm, has donated the business. Chouinard, his wife, and his two adult children gave their shares of Patagonia, worth about $3 billion, to two environmental groups instead of selling it or going public. He believes this move will bring in $100 million annually to help cover their work. Chouinard announced on Wednesday that he has given the company he started in 1973, Patagonia, to the Patagonia Purpose Trust and the Holdfast Collective, a newly established nonprofit organization. The trust is designed to ensure that Patagonia lives up to its goal of running a socially responsible business, fighting the environmental crisis, and protecting nature. Family members and their closest advisors will supervise the trust. The family did not receive a tax break for its investment since the Holdfast Collective is a 501(c)(4), which enab...

Key Takeaways: Two massive labor disputes threaten supply chains in the United States. The labor disputes involve the railroads and the ports. This is a terrible time for disruption with the harvest season and the upcoming holiday season. Two huge labor disputes, in the railways and at the ports, threaten to re-tangle supply chains in the U.S. The White House is pushing to avert supply chain disruptions that could result in a disaster. There is a lot at stake economically. An industry estimate says that a shutdown of the U.S. rail system could cost $2 billion a day, and we’ve already seen what backed-up ports do to the economy during the COVID-19 crisis. Politically, a work stoppage would be bad news for a pro-worker White House that wants to control inflation and avoid bottlenecks. Labor unions and railroads worked all weekend to avoid a strike, but there were few signs of progress. Before a possible walkout later this week, the companies are warning customers today that th...

The U.S. Open tennis tournament ended on Sunday. Several players were the first to do something new, and Serena Williams, the tennis icon who has been playing tennis for 27 years, played what is likely to be her last match. However, that is not the only news from the tournament. Serena Williams Could Bid Farewell Serena Williams, who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles, said in August that she might evolve away from tennis after this year’s U.S. Open, but she didn’t outright say she was retiring. In the third round on September 2, Ajla Tomljanovic beat Serena 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1. “Clearly, I’m still capable. … (But) I’m ready to be a mom, explore a different version of Serena,” she said. “Technically, in the world, I’m still super young, so I want to have a little bit of a life while I’m still walking.” Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam champion, has made no secret of her desire to break Margaret Court’s record for the most major titles (24), although she has been unable to achieve ...

Alex Jones, maybe the country’s most famous conspiracy theorist, will go on trial again. He will go on trial again for calling the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting a hoax and inflicting emotional and psychological harm on a number of the victims’ families. The upcoming trial is just a month after he lost a nearly $50 million verdict against him. In Connecticut, a six-person jury with several substitutes will start hearing evidence on Tuesday to determine the compensation amount Jones should pay the families since he has already been found liable for their injuries. The trial is expected to last approximately four weeks.  The parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis, who died in the 2012 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, along with 26 other kids and instructors, were awarded $49.3 million by a Texas jury last month. Jones’s lawyer said that the case will be taken to court. The award in the Connecticut case could be bigger because it is made up of three lawsuits that have been c...

On Thursday, September 8, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, died peacefully under medical supervision. At age 96, she had been on the throne for 70 years. She was a symbol of stability during the decline of the British empire and disarray in her own family. She was preceded in death by her husband of 73 years, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. At the age of 99, he died on April 9, 2021. It was just a few days before he would have turned 100. Queen Elizabeth II may have met more people than anyone else in history because she went to so many public events. Her picture was one of the most used in the world. It was on stamps, coins, and banknotes. The World Sends Their Regards In Canada, where the British monarch is the head of state, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised her “wisdom, compassion, and warmth.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India, which was once the “jewel in the crown” of the British empire, tweeted, “She personified dignity and decency in...