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☆ Meeting Yourself Where You’re At
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-14 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

If you’re already in the work force, we have you covered. But no matter what situation you’re in, here’s the most important piece of advice: Ask for help. You’re not alone in your confusion, and there is no shame in raising your hand and asking a question (or 20). If You’re Already WorkingYour salary is your salary, at least for now. This will make it easier to ask for a raise, something my colleague, Tara Siegel Bernard, has written about in the past.

Persons: you’re, We’ve, You’re, you’ve, Tara Siegel Bernard

☆ Can Your Investment Portfolio Reflect Your Values?
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-11 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The protests roiling college campuses are filled with all sorts of demands, but many of them have one thing in common: money. Many pro-Palestinian protesters want their school’s endowments to pull money from investments in companies that have financial ties to Israel. We all want to live our values and have our colleges, employers and communities do so, too. We saw similar protests in the 1970s and ’80s with South Africa and in the continuing debate over climate change. Students, especially, can learn a lot about investing, governance and complexity through trying to influence their schools.

Organizations: South Locations: Israel, South Africa, Gaza

☆ How to Make Retirement Less Scary
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-09 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It’s easy to get caught up in the math before knowing what you want out of this phase of life. At first, I had all sorts of harebrained schemes.

☆ Sign Up for Your Money’s Financial Boot Camp for 20-Somethings
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-06 | by ( Mike Dang | More About Mike Dang | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It’s graduation season, which is a good time for people in their early 20s to start thinking about how to get a better handle on their finances. How do you balance paying off student debt with saving for the future? What’s the best way to create a proper budget? Very few people have their finances perfectly in order while figuring out their lives and careers in their 20s. We’ve put together a five-day financial boot camp for people in their 20s to get them thinking about jobs, budgeting, saving and tackling debt.

Persons: We’ve, Ron Lieber, Tara Siegel Bernard, Mike Dang

☆ You Finished I.V.F. and Want to Donate Embryos. Is There a Tax Benefit?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But a few unusual ones linger for people all over who want to explore every option. What does the law say about what you can and can’t do with your embryos? And if you donate them — say, to a university for research — can you take a tax deduction? It is not clear how many human embryos sit in storage across the United States, but plenty of people who put them there worry about losing control over them. Selling embryos seems outlandish, though it may not violate federal law.

Persons: Tara Siegel Bernard, I, — Organizations: Alabama, Transplant Locations: United States, Alabama

☆ Some Colleges Will Soon Charge $100,000 a Year. How Did This Happen?
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It was only a matter of time before a college would have the nerve to quote its cost of attendance at nearly $100,000 a year. One letter to a newly admitted Vanderbilt University engineering student showed an all-in price — room, board, personal expenses, a high-octane laptop — of $98,426. Only a tiny fraction of college-going students will pay anything close to this anytime soon, and about 35 percent of Vanderbilt students — those who get neither need-based nor merit aid — pay the full list price. But a few dozen other colleges and universities that reject the vast majority of applicants will probably arrive at this threshold within a few years. Their willingness to cross it raises two questions for anyone shopping for college: How did this happen, and can it possibly be worth it?

Persons: — Organizations: Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Locations: Los Angeles, London, Nashville

☆ Robinhood’s Credit Card Offers 3% Cash Back. Can It Last?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-28 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Here’s the first thing to know about the new Robinhood credit card that promises 3 percent cash back on all purchases, without limits: Yesterday, when I asked Vlad Tenev, the company’s chief executive, to guarantee that it would stay at that level for 18 months, he would not. Cash-back offers from big card issuers like Citibank generally top out at about 2 percent, and it’s hard to make money even at that level. The Robinhood Gold Card is the company’s first credit card with its own branding. So what does it think it knows that nobody else does, and what exactly does it hope to accomplish? There are several ways to make money with credit cards.

Persons: Vlad Tenev, Charles Schwab Organizations: Citibank

☆ MTA Board passes final vote on congestion pricing plan
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Mark Morales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Congestion pricing is coming to New York soon with transit officials officially approving the toll structure at a hearing on Wednesday. New York City will soon join other cities such as London, Stockholm and Singapore, with the new congestion pricing plan. Passenger and commercial vehicles will now pay $15 once they enter the “congestion relief zone,” which is below 60th Street in Manhattan. “One of the biggest goals of this is to finally attack congestion but the other side of the equation is to invest more in transit,” Lieber said. Despite the approval and expected implementation of the tolling plan, multiple lawsuits, such as one spearheaded by New Jersey Gov.

Persons: Janno Lieber, ” Lieber, ”, Phil Murphy, “ Organizations: CNN, “, MTA, New York City Department of Education, Taxi, Limousine Commission, New Jersey Gov Locations: New York, . New York City, London, Stockholm, Singapore, Manhattan, York, United States, Long

☆ The State Had at Least $52,000 of Her Money. Why Couldn’t She Get It Back?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Early in 2022, Sarah F. Cox got wind that someone named Connie was looking for her. The stranger wanted to reunite Ms. Cox with some lost money under her name that the State of New York was holding. But months later, Ms. Cox called Connie back when she was visiting the United States while moving from China to Singapore, where she lives now. It turned out that Connie was a kind of bounty hunter, helping people and businesses navigate states’ unclaimed property databases. Ms. Cox decided to find the information on her own, and sure enough, the online unclaimed property database that New York maintains had her name.

Persons: Sarah F, Cox, Connie, Ms Locations: New York, United States, China, Singapore, York

CNN —Russia says it killed large numbers of Ukrainian soldiers with a destructive so-called “vacuum bomb” in a claim Ukraine swiftly called nonsense. The deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces told Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu during a meeting that up to 300 soldiers were killed “as a result of an accurate strike by an aerial munition,” Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday. The spokesperson of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, Andriy Yusov, told CNN the claims were “absolute nonsense and propaganda as well as Russian information about killing 1500 Ukrainian soldiers in Kursk and Belgorod regions yesterday”. The spokesperson of the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine, Andriy Yusov, told CNN the claims were “absolute nonsense and propaganda.”CNN cannot independently verify the incident. Volumetric weapons are also known as vacuum bombs, thermobaric weapons or fuel-air explosives.

Persons: Sergei Shoigu, “, Andriy Yusov, Alexei Kim, Kim, Shoigu Organizations: CNN, Staff, Russian Armed Forces, Russian Defense, Russia’s Defense, Defense Intelligence, Ukrainian Defense Intelligence, RIA Novosti, Lieber Institute for Law & Warfare, US Military Academy, West, Center for Arms Control, Russian, Joint Group of Forces Locations: Russia, Ukraine, Kursk, Belgorod, West Point , New York

☆ A Finance Reporter Who Invests in Readers’ Well-Being
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-13 | by ( Sarah Bahr | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. When Ron Lieber arrived at The Wall Street Journal’s office in 2002 for a job interview, a couple of editors immediately sized him up. “They said, ‘We know what your beat is: beating the system,’” said Mr. Lieber, who had last worked as a senior writer for Fast Company covering management, design and careers. “And now you’re going to come here and do that for us.”After cofounding the Personal Journal section of The Wall Street Journal and writing a separate money management column, he was hired by The New York Times in 2008 to take over Your Money, a personal finance column. Sixteen years later, he has gained a reputation for offering readers advice — often tinged with his own experience — on headache-inducing issues, like how to navigate the maze of paying for college or prepare for life after a layoff.

Persons: Ron Lieber, “, ‘, ’ ”, Lieber, ” Organizations: Fast Company, Street, The New York Times

☆ The I.R.S.’s Taxpayer Experience Officer Says Open Your Mail Already
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-03 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Everyone else, the agency insists, is going to benefit from the $80 billion that the agency won via the Inflation Reduction Act, which was passed in 2022. appointed Ken Corbin as its first chief taxpayer experience officer. I went to the agency’s headquarters in Washington to find out, which was an experience unto itself. Once properly badged — with the words “Escort Only” in the largest font — I had an hour with Mr. Corbin. What follows is a condensed version, edited for clarity, of our conversation — and his advice for taxpayers like you and me.

Persons: Ken Corbin, Corbin Organizations: Internal Revenue Locations: Washington

☆ The Costs for I.V.F. Patients After Alabama’s Ruling
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Ron Lieber | Tara Siegel Bernard | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the wake of the decision, doctors and patients have worried that they could be vulnerable to prosecution in any number of medical scenarios that were once routine. Some Alabama facilities have halted or restricted treatment, and patients elsewhere worry that similar rulings or laws may soon come to their states. And because so many people pay so much for health care, the fallout from the Alabama case raises big financial questions, too. What would it cost to move embryos to a state less likely to issue a similar ruling? Cryoport Systems, IVF Cryo and ReproTech are three shipping companies that specialize in transporting embryos, though there are others.

Organizations: Alabama Supreme Locations: Alabama

☆ Some Good FAFSA News: There’s a Loophole for Grandparents
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-17 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

It is a miserable year to be applying for financial aid. Millions of families probably won’t get a final price tag for college until at least April, because of a series of Education Department delays in rolling out the new FAFSA financial aid form. But if you’re applying for aid and have grandparents who want to help, you may be in luck. But now, thanks to a 2020 law that went into effect this year, those questions about money and income are gone. That means that at most schools, help from a grandparent will no longer count against you.

Persons: Pell Grant Organizations: Education Department, Federal Student Aid

☆ What Amazon, the F.T.C. and C.I.A. Won’t Say When You’ve Been Scammed
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-16 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When New York magazine’s finance advice columnist dropped an article that went viral on Thursday about falling victim to a $50,000 scam, my heart skipped a beat. My own financial planner had gone to jail years ago, which I’d chronicled in a few columns. What would I have done if someone called and insisted that my children, in particular, were in grave danger? But what would any of those entities do if they thought that any one of us was actually a victim of some kind of identity fraud? What would they say, request and tell us to do?

Persons: I’d, Charlotte Cowles, ” Organizations: New York Times, Federal Trade Commission, Central Intelligence Agency Locations: York

☆ Some Colleges Are Pivoting as FAFSA Delays Drag On
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At least 25 schools will no longer require commitments by May 1, since they may not be able to send admitted students financial aid offers until April. A few schools have created new aid forms or processes on the fly to award their own grants and scholarships. In 2020, Congress passed a law that required enormous changes to the processes used to award federal aid. The first was to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, form to make it easier to complete. Another was to the formula that doles out federal aid, which was made in part to offer more help to lower-income students.

Organizations: University of California, California State University, Federal Student Aid

☆ Will Families Pay Less With Two Students in College? Now, It Depends.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-03 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But on Jan. 1, a new federal law went into effect, and the formula changed. A million families with, say, two or more siblings in college simultaneously could pay thousands of dollars more per year as a result. Now, colleges face a choice: Make up any shortfall with their own money, or cross their fingers and hope that families will borrow more or find some other way to pay. In recent weeks, I examined 20 college and university websites, large and small, public and private, big endowments and not-so-big. Only six were clear on how things would change (or not) for families with multiple members in college.

☆ How Some Families Are Breaking the Rules to Apply for Financial Aid
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-27 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Here’s the good news: The Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, website is now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week after a yearslong effort to simplify the process of seeking financial assistance. This month, I watched two high school seniors and their college counselor start the forms from scratch and submit them in just over an hour. But in doing so, the teenagers made a false statement that broke the law. In this case, safeguards are necessary to protect private financial information. But any new login requirements might also trigger an impulse for many families with complicated lives to bypass them.

Persons: ’ Organizations: Federal Student Aid

☆ It's pretty clear who the most popular person in the Republican Party is, analyst says
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailIt's pretty clear who the most popular person in the Republican Party is, analyst saysJon Lieber of Eurasia Group says it's Donald Trump.

Persons: Jon Lieber, it's Donald Trump Organizations: Republican Party, Eurasia Group

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Democratic lawmakers in Oregon on Tuesday unveiled a sweeping new bill that would undo a key part of the state’s first-in-the-nation drug decriminalization law, a recognition that public opinion has soured on the measure amid rampant public drug use during the fentanyl crisis. It also aims to make it easier to prosecute dealers, to access addiction treatment medication, and to obtain and keep housing without facing discrimination for using that medication. The Legislature adjourned over the summer, but concern over the state's drug crisis led Democrats to launch the committee in between sessions. Measure 110 directed the state’s cannabis tax revenue toward drug addiction treatment while decriminalizing “personal use” amounts of illicit drugs. Those arrested for small amounts would be referred by police to a peer support specialist to schedule an assessment or intervention.

Persons: “, Sen, Kate Lieber, Lieber, decriminalizing, “ We're, ″ Lieber Organizations: — Democratic, Portland Democrat, Associated Press, Voters, Democratic Locations: SALEM, Ore, Oregon, Portland

☆ Why Is Paying for College So Complicated?
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-18 | by ( Ron Lieber | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Saving and paying for college is an endurance test, a forced march on an often 50-year parade, where strange numerical codes and senseless jumbles of letters mark a route that Waze can’t map. Begin at age zero or earlier with a 529 college savings plan for your child, born or not yet so. Then, fill out the FAFSA, which stands for “Free Application for Federal Student Aid,” and determine your student aid index (S.A.I.). or other data or the figures that another form, the CSS Profile, belches out is probably not enough to make college affordable. So you could apply for a federal PLUS loan for parents, which might take you 25 years to repay.

Organizations: Federal Student Aid, CSS

☆ She Wrote the Brooklyn Mom Playbook. Now She’s Starting Fresh.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Chavie Lieber | Photography Eric Chakeen For Wsj. Magazine | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Joanna Goddard is starting over. She wants you to know you can too. The lifestyle blogger built a successful brand around her idyllic Brooklyn life with Cup of Jo, the site she launched in 2007. Her posts chronicled falling in love, building a family and navigating everyday challenges. And her readers—most of them women—were on that journey with her.

Persons: Joanna Goddard, Jo, — Locations: Brooklyn

☆ Israel Presses Assault on Hamas’s Last Major Gaza Bastion
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Dov Lieber | Margherita Stancati | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israeli forces closed in on the city of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, engaging in close combat with Hamas fighters in what could be the decisive battle of the two-month-old war, while residents fled from the fighting amid a worsening humanitarian plight. Hamas, a U.S.-designated terrorist group, is defending its last major bastion in Gaza, where Israel believes the group’s leaders are hiding and holding hostages, after Israeli forces drove the militants and much of the population out of Gaza City in the enclave’s north.

Persons: Khan Younis Organizations: Hamas Locations: TEL AVIV, Khan, Gaza, U.S, Israel, Gaza City

☆ Israel, Hamas Engage in Some of Fiercest Fighting of War
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Benoit Faucon | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israeli troops and Hamas fighters were engaged Monday in some of the toughest fighting of the two-month-old war, as Israel looks to decisively finish its operations in and around Gaza City and prepare to move its offensive south. The Israeli military has essentially cornered Hamas fighters in two of their last strongholds in the northern Gaza Strip—the Shajaiya neighborhood of Gaza City and the city of Jabalia, immediately to the north.

Locations: TEL AVIV, Israel, Gaza City, Gaza, Jabalia

☆ The Wing’s Working-Woman Aesthetic Has Moved to the Suburbs
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Chavie Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Laetitia Gorra, the interior designer behind the Wing’s look, is opening a workspace in a suburb of New York. Photo: Gabe OshinIn the 2010s, Laetitia Gorra helped define an aesthetic for working women in cities across the U.S. At the women’s-only co-working space the Wing, the interior designer developed corporate-chic interiors that brought color and texture to office furniture and conference rooms in urban locations. Now she’s aiming to do it again—but this time, for the post-pandemic work-from-homers who are used to carefully curated suburban houses. In December, Gorra is opening a co-working space in Hastings-on-Hudson, a small village in Westchester County, New York, where she lives.

Persons: Laetitia Gorra, Gabe Oshin, Gorra Organizations: U.S Locations: New York, Hastings, Hudson, Westchester County , New York

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