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Tag: 2021

  • Prof Patty
  • January 6, 2021January 6, 2021

31 Productive Things to Do in January to Start the New Year Off Right

By Mikey Rox  1 January 2015 Enjoy the Day Off Write Thank-You Notes for Holiday Gifts Edit Your Social Media Profiles Raid Your Pantry for Expired Food Read more HERE.

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  • Kintsugi
  • January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

What are Your Goals for 2021?

We see over and over that we make resolutions at the start of the new year. Resolutions that are rarely kept, but sound good when we are struggling with them. I have goals. Here are mine for 2021.

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  • Prof Patty
  • November 14, 2020November 5, 2025

10 Smart Tax Moves to Consider Before Year-End

Take time today to save money on the income tax you will pay in 2021 by Allan Roth, AARP, November 6, 2020 2020 can’t end soon enough for me; maybe you’

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  • Prof Patty
  • October 20, 2020

Social Security COLA Set at 1.3 Percent for 2021

Small boost to monthly benefits starting in January due to low inflation by John Waggoner, AARP, October 13, 2020 The Social Security Administration (SSA) announced on Oct. 13 that its annual

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NY Times

  • Trump Says U.S. Seized Oil Tanker Off Venezuelan Coast
  • Nursing Home Owners Pocketed Millions as Patients Suffered, Report Says
  • What Is a Trump Gold Card? Applications Open for Million-Dollar Visas.
  • The U.S. Seized an Oil Tanker Near Venezuela
  • The Fed Cut Rates Again but Deep Divisions Cloud Path Ahead

NPR

  • Oldest evidence of human fire-making unearthed in Britain
  • What to know about death cap mushrooms, blamed for poisonings in California
  • Black bear populations are bouncing back. Here's how these Texas towns are coping
  • How many species are on Earth?
  • Light from satellites will ruin majority of some space telescope images, study says

The Progressive

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  • States Should Reject Federal School Voucher Scheme
  • Lanes of Resistance
  • The Hidden Dangers of Meta’s Partnership Offer to Schools
  • The Year of the Whistle

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FactCheck.org

  • Probing Trump’s Verbal Attack on Somalis
  • Vance’s Misleading Claims on Housing Prices and Illegal Immigration
  • Vaccine Panel, Voting to Change Hepatitis B Shot for Newborns, Shares Misleading Information
  • Pentagon Inspector General Report Not ‘Total Exoneration’ for Hegseth
  • Examining Trump’s Pardon of Former Honduran President Convicted of Trafficking Drugs to U.S.

Snopes.com

  • Don't believe rumor Ireland denied Rosie O'Donnell's citizenship application
  • Wild story about mother bear and cub rescuing lost girl in Alaska is fake
  • Does an image show JD Vance arguing with his wife, Usha, in a restaurant? We analyzed it
  • Beware claim global leaders announced sanctions against US, Trump
  • Look out for rumor Trump raised price of admission to national parks on MLK Day and Juneteenth

Tradeoffs

  • A New Kind of Primary Care Comes to America
  • One Economist’s Plan to Blow Up America’s Health Insurance System
  • Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Some Cities Are Trying a New Way.
  • Rising Costs, Fewer Choices: What’s Up with Medicare Drug Plans?
  • The Quiet Cuts Making ACA Enrollment Harder

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