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☆ Union households tend to have over $100,000 more in wealth than nonunion families, Federal Reserve data shows
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-21 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The Center for American Progress, a left-leaning think tank, looked at just how much better union workers are faring. By analyzing the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances, CAP found that in 2022, union households held $338,482 in median wealth. Black, nonunion households have a median household wealth of $61,500; meanwhile, Black union households hold around $164,6000 in median household wealth. Union membership rates have declined for decades, reaching a record low of 10% in 2023. The researcher VanHeuvelen previously told BI that the decline in union membership would be like if the wage premium for going to college disappeared.

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☆ US soldiers say running high-stress artillery ops deep in the ever-changing Arctic is unlike anywhere else
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-05 | by ( Chris Panella | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Read previewDeep in the Arctic, US troops are training to conduct difficult and high-stress artillery operations in challenging cold-weather conditions. The challenges, soldiers told Business Insider, come from the freezing temperatures, harsh weather, and unpredictable ground conditions. "There's a lot more than goes into it, especially in the Arctic environment, than the rest of the world," Sgt. Soldiers with 2nd Battalion, 11th Field Artillery, 25th Infantry Division work with M119 Howitzers to enhance their basic artillery skills on Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, June 14, 2020. Troops are being proactive rather than reactive, they told BI, looking for new or alternative firing positions in real time.

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☆ Meet a millennial DINK who feels like an outlier in a child-centric world
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

None of that was true for her, but today she is part of a double-income, no-kids — or DINK — couple. AdvertisementWhile Michelle and her spouse's parents have been supportive, the couple still feels the weight of a culture that's oriented around having kids. There's also a familiar refrain — one that many DINKs come up against — that it's a selfish decision to forego having kids. AdvertisementShe thinks that being a DINK, and opting into it as a lifestyle choice, needs to be more normalized. Are you a DINK or someone grappling with the realities of a child-centric world?

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☆ DINKs, Couples With No Kids, Are Living the New American Dream
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-07 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Bartie Scott | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

DINKs are proudly emerging as an aspirational class for young people — and they're ready to live it up. So when she set up her dating profile, Johnson included in her bio that she didn't want to have kids of her own. Amy Blackstone, the author of the 2019 book " Childfree by Choice ," said that the financial gap between DINKs and couples with kids wasn't solely because of the choice about children. DINKs, GINKs, " rich aunties ," and DINKWADs — DINKs with a dog — have become aspirational identities for younger generations. There are the DINKs who can seize the American dream and the parents who are struggling to stay afloat in a country without guaranteed paid leave or affordable childcare .

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☆ Trump team trolls DeSantis with debate bingo card featuring 'pudding mention,' 'Dee-Santis,' and 'Duh-Santis'
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-23 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis of Florida. Ron DeSantis of Florida even as the ex-president is set to skip the high-stakes event. In Trump's efforts to poke at the different pronunciations of DeSantis' last name, the cards also included both "Dee-Santis" and "Duh-Santis." AdvertisementAdvertisementAfter Trump mocked DeSantis over the issue earlier this summer, DeSantis lashed out at the former president, calling him "petty" and "juvenile." Insider has reached out to the DeSantis campaign for comment.

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☆ Gov. Kim Reynolds urged anti-DeSantis protesters to be 'Iowa nice' as they rallied against his presidential campaign at the state's iconic fair
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-13 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis has had a tough few days as he's ramped up his 2024 campaign throughout Iowa. Kim Reynolds asked protesters to be "Iowa nice" as DeSantis spoke at the Iowa State Fair. "And in Iowa, we're Iowa nice. "We're Iowa nice by nature. "I'm tired of getting trampled on for our rights ... people like Ron DeSantis ...

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☆ The Boebert vs. Greene fight isn't just happening in a ladies' bathroom anymore — it's out on the House floor and uglier than before
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert had a heated exchange on the House floor on Wednesday. "I told her exactly what I think about her," Greene told Semafor. "She has genuinely been a nasty little bitch to me," Greene told Semafor when asked about a confrontation between the two women on the House floor on Wednesday. "I've donated to you, I've defended you," Greene told Boebert before referring to her with the profanity, per one of the Daily Beast's sources. I lean into it," Greene told former Trump adviser Steve Bannon on his "War Room" podcast at the time.

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☆ Ron DeSantis wants everyone to know he did not eat a chocolate pudding with 3 fingers
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Aditi Bharade | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Ron DeSantis says he did not eat a chocolate pudding with his fingers. Ron DeSantis wants people to know that he's never eaten a chocolate pudding with three fingers. DeSantis replied to the chocolate pudding accusation, saying that he does not "remember ever doing that." DeSantis told Morgan. The unnamed sources said the chocolate pudding incident happened in March 2019, on a private plane ride to Washington, D.C., from Tallahassee.

☆ Ketamine is being sold as a depression wonder drug. For some, it's making everything worse.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Anna Silman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +42 min

The infusions at the ketamine clinic in his West Texas hometown were a Christmas gift from his grandmother. About five years ago, more and more of my friends started using ketamine recreationally. IV ketamine treatment centers charging $400 to $2,000 an infusion popped up all over the country. "Ketamine used as directed in an appropriate clinical setting very rarely leads to any dependence," Mindbloom says on its website. Like Nadia, most of the people I interviewed said when they started using ketamine, they didn't think it was possible to become dependent on it.

☆ Outrage mounts in D.C. after man fatally shoots boy, 13, he suspected was breaking into cars
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Marlene Lenthang | Marlene Lenthang Is A Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News Digital. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

Outrage is simmering over the fatal shooting of a 13-year-old Black middle school student in Washington, D.C., by a man who suspected the teen was breaking into cars in his neighborhood. Members of the District of Columbia Department of Forensic Sciences investigate the crime scene of a shooting in Washington, D.C. via WRCDetectives are working with the U.S. Attorney's Office to determine any potential criminal charges. "Although he loved his neighborhood, he loved Brookland MS (the faculty & his peers) and the structure it presented to him even more,” Richardson wrote. Community groups DC Safety Squad, Ward 5 Mutual Aid and Harriet’s Wildest Dreams are demanding the release of the shooter's name and any visual evidence. In a statement, DC Safety squad said: “Karon Blake was senselessly murdered.

☆ Kanye West was seen at Trump's Mar-a-Lago with a white nationalist live-streamer who marched in Charlottesville: report
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Ye was spotted at Mar-a-Lago with alt-right figure Nick Fuentes, per Politico and The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast confirmed with a source that Ye met Trump for dinner, but without Fuentes. Ye and Fuentes were first spotted together at an airport in Miami on Tuesday. —Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) November 23, 2022Politico and The Daily Beast both reported that Fuentes and Ye were seen together at Trump's golf club. Fuentes is well-known for being a participant at the 2017 white supremacist "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville.

☆ Being in a union means you could make $1.3 million more over your lifetime
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The authors found that being in a union means a $1.3 million bump to lifetime earnings. "We find that a person who spent the entirety of their career in a labor union were predicted to earn about a million dollars more over the course of their career compared to somebody who was never in a labor union," VanHeuvelen told Insider. The result was the $1.3 million premium for workers who spent their whole careers in unions, even though those workers were more likely to retire earlier. Workers who are never in a union were projected to earn around $2.1 million their whole careers, while those who were in unions for their whole careers were estimated to make $3.4 million. The number of union representation petitions filed in fiscal year 2022 increased by 53%, according to the National Labor Relations Board.

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