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☆ Meet WiFi Money: Wealthy Finance Influencers Who Infuriated Investors
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-19 | by ( Rob Price | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +26 min

The Texas couple were staring down more than $100,000 in debt, much of which they had poured into WiFi Money. Those who give their money to WiFi Money are often encouraged to sign up other people in return for a cut of their profits — and perhaps, one day, a chance to become part of the WiFi Money crew. As the money poured in, WiFi Money gained a patina of mainstream credibility. AdvertisementThrough WiFi Money, Moeller and Frederick had created a virtuous cycle of money and influence. The same month investors took WiFi Money to court over the stores, DBC announced it was closing down.

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☆ Opinion: In the Michigan primary, Biden shouldn’t fear Rashida Tlaib’s threats
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( Opinion John Halpin | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

John Halpin Courtesy John HalpinProgressive activists have decided to use this interlude to attack Biden for his centrist positions on immigration, energy policy and the Israel-Hamas war, in particular. Like the senators from his birth state, Biden should ignore these threats from the left and stand up strongly for his vital center perspective. Looking at Michigan specifically, the threat of Arab Americans tanking Biden must also be put in wider perspective. Even with these larger trends in the state, the authors find: “In Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Hamtramck, and Livonia — the Michigan cities with the highest proportion of Arab American voters — Biden defeated Trump by a combined 38,000 or so votes. Democratic support for more moderate proposals backed by Biden is even higher: Three-quarters of Democrats support a plan to increase the number of immigration judges to speed up action on asylum claims.

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☆ 2 friends who sold everything to move off-grid together say prioritizing friendship over a romantic partnership has been a relief
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-26 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

They didn't want to put their life on hold waiting for a romantic partner to buy land and a home. Casey and Savannah are bucking the traditional path — both by moving off-grid and by making friendship the center of their lives. Savannah added that moving off-grid has been challenging, especially because they are doing nearly all the work themselves. How the 2 friends fund their off-grid lifeCasey and Savannah did a lot of research before taking the leap into off-grid life. A nontraditional pathSavannah said they both knew they'd really be "sealing the deal" on a life together by moving off-grid.

Persons: Casey, —, it's, they'd, Savannah Organizations: Service, Business, Savannah, YouTube Locations: Savannah, California, Casey, there's

(AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory rally had just ended when fan Trey Filter heard what he initially thought was fireworks. The shooting happened as Filter was walking to his car with his wife, Casey Filter, and their 15- and 12-year-old children. “Right out of a video game,” is how Trey Filter recalled the long-barreled weapon. “We we barely let the dogs out when we got home.”For Casey Filter, what sticks out is how fast everything changed. Trey Filter laughed at the idea.

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☆ Strong economic growth but high unemployment: A look at Nevada’s economy
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-08 | by ( Alicia Wallace | Tami Luhby | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +13 min

In Las Vegas, the cacophony of voices, music, ringing slot machines and car horns that typically pulsed through the Las Vegas Strip was replaced by silence, the chirps of birds and the wails of sirens. In tourism-dependent Nevada, the unemployment rate rocketed even higher, topping out at 30.6% that month. “This is an unemployment rate that’s not driven by job losers, this is an unemployment rate driven by job seekers,” he said. Homes under construction in the Summerlin community, on July 31, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. As of December 2023, the Reno metro area’s unemployment rate was just 0.2 percentage points above the nation’s 3.7% rate.

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Others are calling for larger foundations to help grantees if they are sued or are offering legal assistance themselves. The Council on Foundations, which supports philanthropic foundations and provides legal resources to its members to help them consider potential legal risks, submitted an amicus brief in the case supporting the Fearless Fund's First Amendment argument. “If you’re committed to DEI or race-conscious or race-based giving, you should not back down on your priorities. We’re funding homelessness or employment or the wealth gap,” she said as examples of changes in wording funders have made. The Black Freedom Fund, which was founded in 2021 to fund Black community organizations in California, has started a legal defense fund for its grantees for precisely that reason.

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☆ Real-estate investors on tight budgets are using a creative strategy to buy homes with zero money down and lock in low interest rates in high-rate environments
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-30 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

One strategy, known as buying "subject-to," allowed her to bypass a down payment and inherit a relatively low interest rate for her second property. According to Casey, subject-to deals aren't all that common, mostly because of a lack of understanding about how they work, even among real estate professionals. He can take that money from the escrow if she misses a mortgage payment. "I don't necessarily care about the purchase price; I care about your interest rate. I care about not having to put down a down payment, Casey continued.

Persons: Casey, —, She's, that's, you've, Nyasia Casey, he's, Zeona McIntyre, Zeona McIntyre McIntyre, she's Organizations: Business Locations: New York City, Baltimore, Boulder

☆ A real-estate investor explains how she used 'subject-to financing' to buy a property with zero money down while also securing a lower interest rate
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-23 | by ( Kathleen Elkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewNyasia Casey drained nearly all her savings to acquire her first property in 2021: a $105,000 single-family home in Baltimore. AdvertisementUsing 'subject-to' financing to bypass a down payment and inherit a low interest rateWhile researching creative financing, Casey learned more and more about "subject-to loans," when the buyer takes over the existing financing. This was a major advantage for Casey, who didn't have much cash on hand when she was looking to buy her second property. Another benefit of subject-to for the buyer, especially in a high-interest-rate environment, is that they could inherit a low interest rate. In Casey's case, she inherited the seller's 4.5% rate when rates were hovering around 8%, she said.

Persons: —, Casey, It's, doesn't, Nyasia Casey, he's, that's, you've Organizations: Service, Business, Housing Authority, Baltimore City, YouTube Locations: Baltimore, New York City

☆ WeWork: the Tech Company That Wasn’t
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A WeWork office in New York, Nov. 7. Photo: shannon stapleton/ReutersThe WeWork debacle (“How WeWork Rose and Went Broke,” Review & Outlook, Nov. 8) confirms that intelligence and control of investment capital aren’t necessarily connected. How anyone could mistake an office-space leasing company for a “tech company” is beyond me. WeWork put some bright lipstick on it and added foosball. The investors deserved to lose their shirts; greed and stupidity got the better of them.

Persons: shannon stapleton, Rose, WeWork, Casey F, Powell Locations: New York

☆ Exclusive: Trucking firm prepares long-shot bid for Yellow, seeks US Treasury support
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Jarrett Renshaw | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Jack Cooper officials, including Executive Chair Sarah Amico, have been talking with Biden administration officials in recent months to get support for extending the terms of the loan. The White House said it was referring all Jack Cooper stakeholder inquiries to the Treasury Department. Jack Cooper and the Teamsters union declined to comment. Yellow owns approximately 12,000 trucks and 35,000 trailers, along with hundreds of terminals, according to its bankruptcy court filing. Trucking firm Estes Express submitted a revised bid worth $1.525 billion in cash for Yellow Corp's shipment centers, topping a $1.5 billion bid from Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL.O).

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☆ Hot girl summer is about to come to a crashing halt, and winter is coming for women
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-19 | by ( Emily Canal | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

This year's hot girl summer was led by the women who propped up the US economy. The aid has been funding childcare for the past two years, which helps keep many moms working. The study polled 3,661 women and 1,144 men between November 19, 2020, and December 17, 2020. Simultaneously, if childcare centers closed, working women would bear the brunt — in a 2020 report, the National Women's Law Center found that 95% of childcare workers were women . AdvertisementAdvertisementParents, experts, and lawmakers have previously told Insider how vital childcare is to working parents.

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☆ A millennial couple earning 6 figures pay $60,000 a year for childcare. It's their biggest financial burden.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-27 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Like many millennials, Connell faces a more expensive version of parenthood than past generations. "One of the reasons we actually have an au pair is because day care kept shutting down." She added that no day care would be able to take on their youngest until April. "It's an additional $20,000 to $30,000 for her for that extra year of childcare," Connell said. "People are always so shocked to find out what we pay for day care," she said.

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☆ Parents are struggling at work or quitting altogether because of the childcare crisis. This map shows how bad it is for families in every state.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-18 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | Madison Hoff | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation finds that childcare is weighing on parents' jobs. BLS data shows many employed people miss work because of childcare issues. Those job changes, per the report, "include quitting a job, not taking a job or greatly changing a job in the previous year." An analysis by economist Clive R. Belfield estimated that, roughly, inadequate childcare costs the US $122 billion annually, with $78 billion of that loss coming from parental income. Did you have to quit your job, reduce your work hours, or make another job change because of childcare issues?

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☆ See the 19-slide presentation that got the former Louisiana health chief $15 million to care for families at home
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-01 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A former Louisiana secretary of health is building a startup to get families primary care at home. Nest Health landed $15 million in seed funding in May from 8VC and Blue Venture Fund. Check out the pitch deck that Nest used to get funds for its expansion in New Orleans and beyond. For four years, Dr. Rebekah Gee served as the secretary of the Louisiana health department. Here's the pitch deck Nest Health used to land $15 million.

Persons: Rebekah Gee, Gee, 8VC, Annie E, she's Organizations: Health, Blue Venture, Blue Venture Fund, Casey Foundation Locations: Louisiana, 8VC, New Orleans, Gee

☆ US charges ex-Army employee at South Korean facility with bribery, fraud
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - A former civilian employee at a U.S. Army facility in South Korea has been arrested on charges of receiving $400,000 in kickbacks from military contractors, federal prosecutors in Manhattan said on Monday. Young Beom Kim, 62, was responsible for overseeing construction contracts at the Army Garrison Yongsan-Casey from 2017 to 2021. Kim, a U.S. citizen and resident of South Korea, pleaded not guilty to six counts of wire fraud, bribery and money laundering. Prosecutors also say he received kickbacks from a South Korea-based supplier of parts manufactured by U.S. and Chinese companies. Reporting by Luc Cohen in New York, editing by Deepa BabingtonOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ Taylor Swift sends powerful message to women on tour
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Emily Halnon | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —My first stirrings of discomfort at Taylor Swift’s show in Las Vegas hit after the infectious beat faded from fan-favorite “Cruel Summer,” the second song in her supersized set. Challenging double standardsTaylor Swift flexes during her performance at Allegient Stadium in Las Vegas. And whether we were cringing in our seats, like me, or cheering her on, also like me, her words delivered a powerful message. Like Swift, who will perform for over three straight hours on every night of this 52-stop tour, I’m also an endurance athlete. Over the course of this tour, millions of women will watch her share her success.

With large language models like OpenAI's GPT-4 and Google's Bard quickly increasing their power and reach, vLex and Fastcase are betting their combined document library will be a rich training data set for legal AI products. "It will always make sense to train legal LLMs on legal data instead of the World Wide Web," Walters said. The merger creates a law library that is "the biggest legal data corpus ever assembled," the companies said. Other large law firms are using new products from companies like Casetext, a legal research company that last month released a new generative AI legal assistant product. Casey Flaherty of legal innovation collective LexFusion predicted the new vLex would be a "serious player" among legal information companies as AI progresses.

☆ As John Fetterman heals, his Senate staff soldiers on with the help of veteran lawmakers and crisis bonding: 'We all have each other's back'
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( Warren Rojas | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Sen. John Fetterman has been hospitalized for clinical depression since February 15. Casey is coordinating with Fetterman staff on constituent services issues and legislative priorities, according to recent reports, but doesn't call Fetterman directly so as not to disturb his ongoing recovery. Some of the others working hard to meet that internal standard include legislative assistant Madeleine Marr, a former aide to Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire. Conservative commentator Stephen L. Miller has been more blunt, accusing Fetterman's staff of unduly wielding power in his absence. "John Fetterman's chief of staff is not an elected senator," Miller wrote in an op-ed run by the Delaware Valley Journal.

☆ A former CVS nurse practitioner is suing the company after it fired her for refusing to prescribe birth control and Plan B for religious reasons
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( Bethany Biron | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A former CVS employee in Texas is suing the company after it fired her for refusing to give out birth control. The suit claims the company granted her "religious accommodation" until it reversed the policy in August 2021. The suit claims CVS previously granted Strader religious accommodation so that she was not required to give out birth control at the MinuteClinic where she worked in Keller, Texas. Currently, six states — Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Mississippi, and South Dakota — allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense birth control pills or Plan B for religious reasons. Strader's suit follows similar legal action taken by CVS nurse practitioners in Virginia and Kansas, who also claim the company fired them for refusal to provide birth control to customers.

☆ New government funding package includes 'historic step forward' for pregnant workers, new mothers
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-23 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Advocates, legislators, and pregnant workers rally on Capitol Hill in support of The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act on Dec. 1 in Washington, D.C. That includes the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, which will require employers to make temporary and reasonable accommodations for pregnant workers. "This legislation would provide common sense protections for pregnant workers, like extra bathroom breaks or a stool for workers who stand, so they can continue working while not putting extra strain on their pregnancies," Casey said. The Senate amendment to add the bill to the spending package passed on Thursday with a 73-to-24 vote. "It is a monumental and historic step forward for pregnant and post-partum workers," she said.

Many users go to great lengths to secure their social media accounts — but one TikTok creator is showing people that their profiles aren’t as private as they seem. She responded with a stitched video — a video a TikTok creator combines another video on TikTok. His name wasn’t in his profile, and he uses different usernames across social media. Despite speculation by viewers that she pays for public records or uses computer programs to find people, she clarified that she uses only social media and Google. On Twitter, academics praised her for effectively illustrating gaps in social media privacy.

☆ Casey DeSantis, Florida's 'co-governor': Rivals, friends, and former colleagues say she's the secret behind husband Ron DeSantis' meteoric rise
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Lyz Lenz | Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +29 min

Florida's first lady, Casey DeSantis, is a close confidant to her powerful husband, several people told Insider. He added, "We would not see Ron DeSantis outside of press conferences if he did not have a wife and kids." Ron DeSantis began clawing his way into the national spotlight in 2017 as a member of the US House of Representatives. She smiled wryly and said: "Everyone knows my husband, Ron DeSantis, is endorsed by President Trump, but he's also an amazing dad. "Ron DeSantis would be a very good candidate for the St. Johns county commission if he did not have Casey DeSantis in his life," Schorsch said.

☆ Women's basketball influencers are the most engaging college athletes for brands, according to new data. Here are the top creators.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-28 | by ( Colin Salao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Data shows the top 10 women's basketball athletes include the Cavinder Twins and Paige Bueckers. The apparel giant's signings show that major companies are embracing NIL deals with women's basketball student-athletes, and data shows why. Women's basketball athletes posted the highest engagement rate with a 9.4% engagement rate on TikTok, which is nearly 10 times higher than standard influencers. The company averaged the engagement rates of individual athletes to determine the overall engagement rate for each subset of athletes. Here are the top 10 women's basketball athletes and their engagement rates during the first year of NIL:

☆ Women's basketball players get the highest engagement rates as influencers, according to new data. Here are the top 10 creators.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Colin Salao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

☆ Taylor Swift 'Midnights' album gives TikTok fan groups more fodder, and community
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-22 | by ( Casey Fiesler | Ph.D. | J.D. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

The magic of a midnight showing wasn’t just about the film but about the community created standing in line together. Some of these fan theories also fuel speculation that Swift might be queer, and in the lead-up to the album release, this conjecture culminated in debate about whether “Midnights” would be Swift’s coming out album. I study fandom and online communities, especially communities that form around fanfiction, and have seen up close that fan theories bring joy to those who engage in making them. There can be a downside to fan theories created around celebrities, of course. But for now, my For You Page has been full of excited videos from fans just enjoying Swift’s music.

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