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But even with her salary and subsidies, Smith couldn't afford childcare. Vermont offers higher income eligibility and larger amounts for childcare subsidies than New Hampshire. During the pandemic, the Biden administration offered childcare assistance for both parents and childcare providers, but this money is set to run out in September. "My motherhood is deeply woven into how I think and how I work because it's all care work. She wants parents to feel comfortable openly saying that they're overwhelmed and can't afford childcare.

Persons: —, Smith, Smith isn't, It's, Michelle McCready, Jess Carson, Carson, McCready, Biden, James Heckman, they're Organizations: American, Service, Craigslist, US Census Bureau, America, Center for Social, University of New, Carsey, of Public Policy, New Hampshire ., US Locations: Grant's, Hampshire, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Hampshire . Vermont

☆ The Tempestuous Lives of Secondhand Furniture
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-17 | by ( Alix Strauss | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

“When I saw how this apartment was staged before I rented it, I was inspired to do the same layout, so I knew what kind of table I needed,” she said. Two months into her search, she saw a post that promised a gorgeous, 42-inch walnut wood and brass dining room table in good condition. It was part of the décor at Günter Seeger, a Michelin-starred restaurant that was closing in the West Village. “I met the owners and could tell they were sad about selling these pieces. There’s romanticism and story behind them,” said Ms. Lobel, who has learned that anything and everything is findable — and sellable — on e-commerce sites, especially Facebook Marketplace.

Persons: Jacqueline Lobel, Günter Seeger, “, ”, Lobel Organizations: Michelin, Facebook Locations: Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, West

☆ Jennifer Lawrence says comedy 'No Hard Feelings' lured her back to acting
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-12 | by ( Hanna Rantala | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Producer Jennifer Lawrence poses. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File PhotoLONDON, June 12 (Reuters) - Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence credits her new R-rated comedy "No Hard Feelings" for making her want to get back to work. Lawrence, 32, who took a two-year break from acting between 2019 and 2021 and had a son in early 2022, found the script too good to pass up. "So, I quickly changed my tune and we were on set four months later," Lawrence, who also produced the movie, saidIn "No Hard Feelings" Lawrence plays Maddie, an Uber driver who finds herself car-less and at risk of losing her home. "No Hard Feelings" will be in cinemas globally from mid-June.

Persons: Jennifer Lawrence, Sarah Meyssonnier, Lawrence, Maddie, Uber, Percy, Gene Stupnitsky, Maddy, Andrew Feldman, Jen, Andrew, Hanna Rantala, Bill Berkrot Organizations: Cannes, Harvard, Thomson Locations: Cannes, France, London

☆ Grubhub fires delivery driver accused of stealing a customer's kitten off her front porch
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Grubhub told Insider that it's "terminated" the driver after investigating the incident. A Grubhub customer said a delivery driver stole a kitten from her front porch after she ordered food from the app, CBS News reported. Scoggins told KENS 5 that she cares for the kitten named "Smudge" along with two others with her neighbor. '," Scoggins told KENS 5. A spokesperson for Grubhub told Insider: "Following our investigation into this incident, we've now terminated this driver."

Persons: Grubhub, Amanda Scoggins, Scoggins, KENS, we've, RJ Organizations: Morning, CBS News, San, CBS, Craigslist, Amazon Locations: San Antonio , Texas, San Antonio, Weatherford , Texas

☆ How Much Can a Waffle House Server Earn for $2.92 an Hour?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Amanda Claypool | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Amanda Claypool got a part-time job at Waffle House for $2.92 an hour. I worked at Waffle House for almost 3 monthsI actually liked working at Waffle House. Either way, Waffle House is only legally required to make sure I earn $7.25 per hour. I used the cash tips I earned from Waffle House — around $500 — to make a payment on my credit card. Even if Waffle House wanted to offer higher wages, I'm not sure they'd be able to raise their menu prices to compensate for it.

☆ 35-year-old who makes more than $5,000/month in passive income on her best career advice: Find ‘different communities of people’
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-30 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Jen Glantz wasn't sure which career path to take when she graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2010. But outside of her professional life, Glantz noticed she was constantly being asked to be people's bridesmaid. Altogether her various income streams bring in more than $5,000 in passive income per month. You can do this by taking online courses like those on LinkedIn Learning or Udemy, taking in-person courses at a local college or university or by doing some one-on-one coaching with a professional in a skill you're looking to hone. "I learned a lot of those skills by taking online courses, a lot of them free courses that I found just to teach me the structure and the baseline."

☆ A 12,500-square-foot property in Maryland hit the market for just $42,000. It turns out it's a high school, and the listing is believed to be a senior prank.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Some high school students in Maryland got pretty creative with their senior prank. Students are thought to be responsible for listing Meade High School for sale on Zillow for $42,069. It's actually Meade High School in Fort Meade, Maryland, and the listing is believed to be a senior prank. The students at Meade aren't the first to list their school for sale for their senior prank. In 2018, seniors at Auburn High School in Rockford, Illinois, put their school on Craigslist for $2,018.

☆ I run a homeschool agency for clients like Kylie Jenner and Khloé Kardashian. Here's what it's like catering to parents for whom price is no object.
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-24 | by ( Jenny Powers | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

In 2013, Tiffany Sorya responded to a Craigslist ad and began tutoring Kylie and Kendall Jenner. I did well in high school, but my freshman year of college was a struggle and my grades plummeted. Now I run Novel Education Group, a homeschooling agency that caters to the children of celebrities, royalty, and ultra-high-net-worth families. After graduating in 2010, I moved to Los Angeles and began tutoring through an agency while homeschooling students on the side. Since 2020, we've also started working with families in Saudi Arabia, some of whom are royalty.

Persons: Tiffany Sorya, Kylie, Kendall Jenner, Sorya, —, Kris Jenner, Kendall, Jenner, haven't, Dre's, Kylie's, Stormi, we've, I've Organizations: Education, Service, Craigslist, University of Southern, NDAs Locations: New York City, Cambodia, France, Portland , Oregon, Los Angeles, Laurel, America, University of Southern California, Caribbean, Saudi Arabia, Riyadh

☆ ‘Focus on unsexy problems’: 3 millennial freelancers on how to build a successful career
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Eventually, Burton learned people were offering their rapping skills for hire on Fiverr and decided to give the freelance platform a shot himself. In 2015, Jen Glantz, now 35, posted an ad as a bridesmaid for hire on Craigslist. When it comes to career advice, figure out what skills you already have and how you can optimize them. And "not just skills related to your degree," she says, "but also personality skills, character skills, hobbies." "I was asked to be a bridesmaid so many times by so many people," says Glantz about her 20s.

☆ A 22-year-old making $144,000 from 2 full-time remote jobs explains why he's willing to take the risk — and shares 5 strategies for getting away with it
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-14 | by ( Jacob Zinkula | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A 22-year-old began working two full-time remote jobs in 2021. In November of 2021, he started a second full-time remote software engineering role. While juggling two roles can be stressful at times — like when he has overlapping meetings or receives unexpected work — Jason said that in some ways, his working arrangement reduces his stress. The desk in his apartment where Jason usually works Jason5 strategies to work two remote jobs and get away with itJason said he uses five different strategies to juggle both jobs and not get caught. Why he's not worried about an overemployment crackdownSince taking on two full-time remote jobs, Jason said he has immersed himself in the "overemployed community" online — the r/Overemployed subreddit has 176,000 members.

☆ We traveled the continent in our Airstream, and now we're turning it into a permanent jungle home where we can raise our daughter and live off the land
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-11 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Kristen Sarah and Siya Zarrabi spent five years transversing the continent in their 1976 Airstream. Now, they've settled in Costa Rica and are building a $60,000 home around the travel trailer. Their young daughter prompted the move — they wanted her to be surrounded by nature. Loading Something is loading. We found a vintage one from 1976 on Craigslist, and we drove four or five hours to pick it up.

☆ This couple paid $200,000 for their 180-year-old rainbow farmhouse and spent just as much on renovations—take a look inside
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-09 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +7 min

The two sat down together and drew a circle around New York City on a map and started looking for where they could buy land for a farm. The 180-year-old farmhouse originally sat on 40 acres of land. The couple initially bought 16 acres, but was eventually able to buy the entire property back. Two months and 25 viewings later, they saw a 180-year-old farmhouse on 16 acres of land in Kingston, New York. Over time, Katwise and Brown were able to buy the other 24 acres, which brought the property back to its original size.

☆ A real estate investor who built a $2.7 million portfolio in 4 years shares how he made over $180,000 from his biggest housing flip to date — and pinpoints the hidden costs to avoid when flipping home
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Lisa Kailai Han | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Real estate investor Dan Rivers, who owns a 16-unit portfolio worth $2.7 million, also flips homes. In addition to his rental income, Rivers also has another nearly $1 million invested with a number of different real estate syndicates. In fact, flipping homes has been a big part of Rivers' success in real estate investing. Getting started in flipping homesRivers first became interested in flipping homes in 2019, while working as a real estate agent. Luckily, Rivers' real estate commission cushioned the loss by a couple grand, bringing his total loss down to over $2,000.

☆ An ex-Walmart cashier made $6 million in revenue in 3 years selling things online. Here's how she got started and her top 5 tips for print-on-demand products.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-30 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

It's a low-cost way to sell products online because you don't need inventory. She had purchased an ebook about how to make money online and then realized it had an affiliate link she could promote. Finding something that stuckIt was around this time that she began dabbling with print-on-demand products. The demand was strong from others who were also offering print-on-demand products. She estimates that about 30% of the revenue came from selling her print-on-demand products.

☆ I answered a Craigslist ad offering $25/hr to help a woman 'match with intelligent, well-educated men' on Bumble and OKCupid
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-28 | by ( Gili Malinsky | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Then I did my 2018 taxes and discovered I owed the U.S. government $2,798 and New York state $345 from the full-time freelance work I'd done the year before. A family member was able to lend me $1,243 at no interest, as well as an extra $50 so I wouldn't starve till my next pay day. I started looking for work outside of my day job to help cover the bill. "If I can help a badass lady find some man gold," I wrote, "that feels like a pretty major win." We Skyped the following day then met up for drinks at a wine bar in Brooklyn to hammer out details.

☆ A Fake Craigslist Ad Costs a New Hampshire Man His Right to Vote
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Lauren Mccarthy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On the day of a special election in New Hampshire in April 2021, Michael Drouin posted a fake advertisement on Craigslist offering a free trailer and listed the phone number of Bill Boyd, a candidate for a state House seat. Mr. Drouin was indicted in November 2022 on a felony charge of interference with election communications. On Monday, Mr. Drouin, 30, of Merrimack, N.H., pleaded guilty to the reduced charge of creating a false document, an election law offense, admitting that he knowingly interfered with Mr. Boyd’s ability to use his cellphone on Election Day. The charge is a misdemeanor, not a felony, but it still cost him his right to vote in the state. People who are convicted of a willful violation of the state’s election laws lose their right to vote under the New Hampshire Constitution.

☆ What Was Twitter, Anyway?
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-18 | by ( Willy Staley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

Dorsey had nurtured the basic idea of Twitter for years — a site that would be like AOL Instant Messenger’s “away message” for anywhere, or “a more ‘live’ LiveJournal,” as he put it in a post on Flickr. But Williams, who created Blogger and sold it to Google for millions, came to see something else in Twitter: To him, its potential lay in its ability to create a running record of what was going on in the outside world. Dorsey was insistent that it was the latter: “You’re talking about your status as you look at the fire.”To Dorsey, the fact that Twitter creates a record of the world would be an incidental byproduct of all this status-sharing. He posted it to Twitter with a brief caption. Dorsey and Williams were correct to identify this as a conflict, even if they could not design or engineer it away.

☆ An Ohio couple found a cheap laundromat on Craigslist. Now they're millionaires.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | Libertina Brandt | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In 2010, Dave Menz was working at a telephone company when he decided to invest in a laundromat. Now he and his wife run four laundromats that brought in $1.8 million in revenue last year. It did for Dave Menz, a 46-year-old real-estate investor in Cincinnati, who calls himself the Laundromat Millionaire. The four laundromats Menz operates with his wife, Carla — along with their consulting business helping other laundromat owners get started and grow their businesses — have, indeed, made them rich. Courtesy of Dave and Carla MenzThat location, which opened in January 2011, became profitable within three weeks, Menz said.

☆ See the 16-slide presentation a startup used to sell investors on a new approach to solving a $50 billion problem for Big Pharma
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-12 | by ( Rebecca Torrence | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Inato, which matches pharma companies with hospitals for clinical trials, just landed $20 million. Three months after raising $14 million in Series A funding in February 2020, Inato's founders realized they were making the wrong product. The Paris-based startup was founded in 2016 to help pharmaceutical companies find the right sites to conduct their clinical trials. Now, pharma companies post their clinical trials onto Inato's platform, and sites can apply for the trials they're interested in. Inato provided Insider with the pitch deck it used to raise $20 million in Series A-2 funding.

☆ I started making candles from a humble craft kit and grew it into a million-dollar business. Here are the steps I took to go from Etsy to Nordstrom.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Lola Christina Alao | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Tamara Mayne started making candles as gifts for her family with a store-bought candlemaking kit. I thought: Why not try and make some extra cash from selling candles on the side? I also started selling on Scoutmob — a now defunct website where buyers could discover independent makers, while still selling on Etsy and Squarespace. After a few weeks of just selling candles, I decided to pick up some freelance art-directing work to cover the bills. Our candles cost between $28 and $38 because of our increased overhead, when I first started selling them I was charging only $16.

☆ I bought a $1,200 shed on Craigslist and transformed it into a backyard cottage. My side hustle nets me about $600 extra a week.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Dan Latu | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

I hired the contractor who had done a total renovation on my kitchen and dining room the year before. Together we did the blueprints and the planning. The shed on Salas' property, pre-renovation. Courtesy of Daniel SalasI got several bids before I decided I wanted to use my contractor. He wasn't even the cheapest, but I got him because I knew his work.

☆ How this 26-year-old went from running bitcoin trading desks in Taco Bells to creating the largest crypto exchange in Africa
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-25 | by ( Mackenzie Sigalos | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +28 min

Yellow Card CEO Chris Maurice just before meeting with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Accra, Ghana. Chris MauriceFrom there, Yellow Card users can send or receive digital cash in eligible markets. Zoom In Icon Arrows pointing outwards Yellow Card CEO Chris Maurice in Accra, Ghana loading cash onto his Mobile Money account, MoMo. Yellow Card has facilitated $1.75 billion in transactions since launching in 2019 and has about 220 employees – mostly in Africa. A resident checks his phone outside a mobile money kiosk in the Kibera district of Nairobi, Kenya, on Monday, Aug. 1, 2022.

☆ I make up to $13,000 a month from my digital-marketing business and still have the flexibility to travel and snowboard — here's how I built it
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Perri Ormont Blumberg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

She and her partner made $180,000 in 2022 while maintaining the flexibility to ski and snowboard. I now live near Jackson Hole, Wyoming, during the winters to snowboard and run my digital-marketing agency, Snowmad Digital. When the pandemic hit in March 2020, the PR agency I was working for fired everyone, and I started wildland firefighting. One of my newer clients said they saw the video and just hired me this month largely because of it. I never work with my clients' competitors, and I work with clients all around the country and the world.

☆ Digital nomads can rent apartments on 'standby' for a fraction of the cost — but you might be forced to move out with 3 days' notice
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Hannah Towey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Landing's latest offering is a membership tier called "standby," and it's the rental equivalent to flying standby on an airline. "Standby" members pay a flat $1,295 monthly fee to access 20,000 fully-furnished apartments across more than 375 cities, with the exception of New York and California. That means if standard members want your apartment, you could be kicked out with as little as three days' notice. If that happens, however, you can transfer to any available Landing apartment at no additional cost — but it's not guaranteed it'll be in the same city. A Landing apartment.

☆ Don't bother writing a 'love letter' to home sellers. They're a waste of time and someone could get screwed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( Aj Latrace | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Moved by the note, dubbed a "love letter" in real-estate parlance, Byington decided to sell the house to her. Elizabeth Scire's "Barbie House" love letter to the seller. EtsyLove letters risk discriminationDeeply personal and emotionally written love letters, however, open sellers and their agents up to legal risks. In a 2020 blog post, the National Association of Realtors said love letters would be more accurately described as "liability letters." In September 2021, Oregon became the first state to enact a law that banned the practice of writing or sharing real-estate love letters during the homebuying process.

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