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☆ Why we are hard-wired to feel 'sunshine guilt' — and what you can do to manage it
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-08 | by ( Nandini Maharaj | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewEven if you don't live somewhere known for breaking rainfall records, you've probably seen the effects of "sunshine guilt," as it's called on TikTok. Sunshine guilt is when you feel anxious or guilty about staying inside and not enjoying a sunny day to the fullest. Since you don't know when you'll have another opportunity to enjoy the weather, sunshine guilt is considered a form of FOMO (fear of missing out), she added. Unlike summer-pattern SAD, sunshine guilt is "not a medical condition and does not typically cause severe mood disturbances or functional impairments," Hafeez said. AdvertisementWhat can you do to manage sunshine guilt?

Persons: —, you've, Patrice Le Goy, Sanam, Le Goy, Hafeez, Nandini Maharaj Organizations: Service, Business, Mental Health America

☆ A Perfect Peach Pie That’s ‘Better Than My Mom’s’
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Sam Sifton | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

There’s a road near where I stay that’s lined with orchards, and when the peaches get ripe there I like to drive it with the windows open. In the meantime, I’ll be looking to Georgia, where the crop’s bouncing back from a disastrous, frost-ruined 2023 season. A dozen ripe Georgia peaches in a paper sack? Cut one more for lunch: a tomato and peach salad with whipped goat cheese. And then, of course, you should make a perfect peach pie (above).

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☆ It's cool to be a finance bro — for now
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Jordan Parker Erb | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

It comes amid reports that White House staffers are being told to go heads down and " execute, execute, execute. " The big storyISO: A man in financeGetty Images; Jenny Chang-Rodriguez/BIIt's cool to be a finance bro — for now. AdvertisementThanks to a song in a viral TikTok video , finance bros have entered a period of resurgence. But it didn't take long to discover that finance bros were often the butt of the joke. So finance bros may be enjoying a moment in the cultural sunshine — but it likely won't last forever.

Persons: —, I'm Jordan Parker Erb, Dan DeFrancesco, Donald Trump, Joe Biden's, Biden, We'll, Jenny Chang, Rodriguez, bro —, Megan Boni, It's, Maria Noyen, wasn't, Elizabeth Holmes, Theranos, Sam Bankman, Rishi Sunak —, Joey Chestnut, Jordan Parker Erb, Hallam Bullock, Amanda Yen Organizations: Service, White House, Business, Getty, bros, Trust Locations: New York City, Patagonia, Manhattan, New York, London

☆ Lucy Lawless on Her Best TV Roles: 'Xena,' 'Parks and Recreation,' & More
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-01 | by ( Eammon Jacobs | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

Lucy Lawless is well aware of the "long shadow" her iconic role in "Xena: Warrior Princess" has cast over her career. Her latest, the Acorn TV series "My Life is Murder," is one example of a project Lawless fought to bring to life. On why getting cast as Xena was 'a great big cosmic joke'Lucy Lawless as Xena in "Xena: Warrior Princess." I don't think that would even be particularly mark-worthy these days, would it? But "Parks and Rec" has people who don't know what "Xena" is, but they do know "Parks and Rec" or "Curb Your Enthusiasm" or something.

Persons: Lucy Lawless, Lawless, —, Alexa Crowe, Xena, It's, Jay Leno, Gabrielle, she's, would've, Renee, O'Connor, I've, Ron Swanson, Diane, Tricia Helfer, D'anna, Ron Swanson's, Ron, Ruby, Bruce Campbell, Sam Raimi, They'd, Margaret Moth, YouTube You've, Joe Duran, Margaret, wasn't Organizations: Business, Acorn, Village Voice, SyFy, Recreation, Entertainment, YouTube, CNN Locations: Australia, New Zealand, Parks, America, Sarajevo

☆ The last time we traveled as a family of 6, we spent $6000. I refuse to make the same mistake this summer.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Rachel Garlinghouse | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewLast summer, my family of six went on vacation to a Florida beach. Summer has barely started, and my social media feed is flooded with friends and family members' vacation pics. AdvertisementOther theme ideas include sports, music, animals, movies, or art. See their local sights and enjoy local restaurants. Get season passesSeason passes to a nearby theme park or kid-friendly museum or activity center can save you substantial money.

Persons: —, hadn't, we've, you've, St . Louis, Louis Organizations: Service, Business, City Museum Locations: Florida, St ., St

☆ Russia Maintains Punishing Pace of Deadly Strikes on Ukrainian Cities
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-30 | by ( Marc Santora | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A Russian missile attack on a small town in southeastern Ukraine and the fiery inferno that followed killed at least seven civilians, including three children, the country’s authorities said as they surveyed on Sunday the deadly toll of two days of fierce Russian assaults. Yuriy Borzenko, chief doctor of Zaporizhzhia Regional Children’s Hospital, said in a phone interview that, aside from those killed, dozens of others, including a pregnant woman and five 14-year-old girls, were being treated for wounds after the attack on the southeastern town, Vilniansk, which took place on Saturday. The girls were out for a walk together in the afternoon sunshine, Dr. Borzenko said, when explosions from the projectiles tore through the center of the town, engulfing shops, cars and homes in flames. Shrapnel had embedded in the skull of one of the girls, who was left in a coma, he said, “still in between life and death.”“Her parents are in really bad shape, I just saw them,” he added. As the attacks have rained down, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has reiterated his plea to loosen restrictions on the use of long-range American missiles known as ATACMS so that Ukraine can target warplanes at Russian air bases before they take to the sky on bombing runs.

Persons: Yuriy Borzenko, Borzenko, “, ” “, ”, Volodymyr Zelensky Organizations: Children’s Hospital Locations: Russian, Ukraine, Vilniansk

☆ Goodyear, Arizona to Fort Myers, Florida: 10 fastest-growing retirement hot spots in America, according to a new study
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

When Americans think about where to retire, they're pretty likely to think about Florida and a June GOBankingRates study of the fastest-growing retirement hot spots around the U.S. shows just that. Four of the top 10 retirement hot spots ranked in the study are in Florida. The Sunshine State also landed 12 spots on the top 50 list. To determing the ranking, GOBankingRates looked at every city in the U.S. that met the following criteria: had at least 7,500 people aged 65+ living in the area as of 2022 and a 65+ population above the national average of 16.5%. All data used in the study was sourced from the 2022, 2021, and 2017 American Community Surveys conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Persons: GOBankingRates Organizations: The Sunshine State, U.S . Census Locations: Florida, U.S

☆ 14 celebs who moved to Florida and why they love it there
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-29 | by ( Jason Guerrasio | Jordan Pandy | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Wealthy buyers and celebrities are increasingly choosing Florida for its tax benefits and weather. Athletes like Tom Brady and stars like Scott Baio are establishing themselves in the Sunshine State. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . Superstar athlete Lionel Messi, for instance, made his way to Florida after leaving Barcelona. Actors like Sylvester Stallone, one of the many Hollywood stars who've left California, also opted to make Florida his new home base.

Persons: Tom Brady, Scott Baio, —, Lionel Messi, Sylvester Stallone, who've Organizations: Sunshine State, Service, Barcelona, Hollywood, Business Locations: Florida, California

Rights groups are furious the Taliban meeting is going ahead without Afghan women, and say it legitimizes Afghanistan’s leaders and fails to hold them to account for grave injustices. Whatever we had, we spent it,” Arzo’s brother Ahamad, a 27-year-old journalist under threat from the Taliban due to his occupation, told CNN in November. Arzo told CNN what drove her suicide attempt. Pakistan’s policy on “illegal foreigners” is no different to that of other nations, Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mumtaz Zahra Baloch told CNN. CNNArzo doesn’t want a life like that for herself, her sister, or the women and girls still in Afghanistan.

Persons: ”, Arzo, Javed Iqbal, ” Richard Bennett, Zabihullah Mujahid, “, Richard Bennett, weren’t, – they’ll, They’re, Mahsa, Ahamad, Doctors, Arzo’s, CNN Arzo hadn’t, ” Mahsa, they’ve, can’t, Moniza Kakar, Rain, Kakar, Abbas, Mumtaz Zahra Baloch, Baloch, hadn’t, ” Amanullah, He’s, Amanullah, he’s, CNN Arzo, Heather Barr, ” Barr, “ It’s, Bennett, she’ll, “ I’m Organizations: CNN, Lifeline, International Association for Suicide Prevention, Befrienders Worldwide, Pakistan CNN —, United Nations, Human Rights, UN, Security, “ ACC ”, Afghan, ACC, Pakistani Ministry of Foreign, “, Taliban, Human Rights Watch, International Court of Justice, Criminal Court, ICC Locations: Karachi, Pakistan, Pakistani, Afghanistan, CNN Pakistan, Doha, Qatar, Afghan, Kabul, Islamabad, –, Soviet, ”, Canada, Israel, Gaza

☆ 'Forget about Florida' and 6 other key pieces of real estate advice from Barbara Corcoran
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-28 | by ( Celia Fernandez | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Barbara Corcoran has been in the real estate industry for over 40 years. Barbara Corcoran has made quite a name for herself with more than 50 years in the real estate business. Over the years, Corcoran has shared key pieces of real estate advice on various topics, including the best places to buy a home, why young people should invest in real estate early, and more. Finally, "you want to make sure you make the key improvements in your kitchen," Corcoran said. "Ask them if they have any special discounts for good customers who have been banking with them for a while," Corcoran recommends.

Persons: Barbara Corcoran, Corcoran, Elvis Duran, There's, there's, Young, it's Organizations: Sunshine State, CNBC Locations: Florida, U.S, …, New York

☆ Officer Found Guilty of Murdering Man Outside Washington State Grocery Store
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Alexandra E. Petri | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A police officer in a Seattle suburb was found guilty on Thursday in the 2019 shooting death of a man outside a convenience store, the first such conviction under a Washington State law making it easier to hold the police accountable for the unjustified use of deadly force. A jury found the officer, Jeffrey Nelson, guilty of second-degree murder and first-degree assault for the killing of Jesse Sarey, 26, during an arrest on a disorderly-conduct charge outside Sunshine Grocery in Auburn, Wash., on May 31, 2019. Mr. Sarey’s mother, Kari Sarey Hart, and his younger brother, Torell Sarey, died as the case wound its way through the legal system, said Elaine Simons, 64, who was a foster mother to the brothers. Mr. Sarey’s mother and family fled Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime. “Neither of them got to be here today, except spiritually, for this kind of justice,” she said of Mr. Sarey’s mother and brother.

Persons: Jeffrey Nelson, Jesse Sarey, Sarey’s, Kari Sarey Hart, Torell Sarey, Elaine Simons, ”, “ Organizations: Washington State, Sunshine Locations: Seattle, Auburn, Wash, Cambodia, Khmer

☆ The world’s biggest capital cities are heating up – and Asia tops the charts
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-27 | by ( Lex Harvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Beijing Meteorological Observatory issued the first yellow alert for high temperatures in 2024, with the highest temperature in the city reaching 35 degrees Celsius. New Delhi topped the list of hottest cities, recording 4,222 days above 35 degrees Celsius in the past three decades – more than any other city analyzed. In 2018, Seoul saw 21 days over 35 degrees Celsius — more than the previous 10 years combined. Beijing’s number of days over 35 degrees has increased by 309% since 1994. In October 2023, Jakarta experienced 30 consecutive days over 35 degrees Celsius — more days than during the entire period between 1994 and 2003.

Persons: –, ”, Tucker Landesman, there’s, “ We’ve, Kalyani Saha, “, Anthony Wallace, CNN he’d, Sagar, Young, Parveen Kumar Organizations: Hong Kong CNN, International Institute for Environment, Development, Egypt’s, “, Palace Museum, Beijing Meteorological Observatory, CNN, Getty, NGO Centre, Health Development India, Hindustan Times, Dartmouth Locations: Hong Kong, Asia, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Paris, Egypt’s Cairo, Beijing, China, Southeast Asia, India, New Delhi, Delhi, Lajpat Nagar, South East Delhi, Seoul, AFP, Jakarta, South Korea, rehydrate, Gurugram

☆ The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Raymond Zhong | Jason Gulley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +26 min

The Vanishing Islands That Failed to Vanish Low-lying tropical island nations were expected to be early victims of rising seas. They found that over the past few decades, the islands’ edges had wobbled this way and that, eroding here, building there. No, to understand what really beguiles them about these islands, you need to take a dive into the surrounding sea. Coral reefs Indian Ocean Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL 5 miles Dhigulaabadhoo Coral reefs Indian Ocean Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL 5 miles Dhigulaabadhoo Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL Islands HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL HUVADHOO ATOLL Kandahalagalaa Dhigulaabadhoo HUVADHOO ATOLL Kandahalagalaa Dhigulaabadhoo A map of the Huvadhoo Atoll, a gourd-shaped ring of 241 islands in the southern Maldives. Huvadhoo Atoll is a gourd-shaped ring of 241 islands in the southern Maldives.

Persons: ” Charles Darwin, Darwin, bode, Arthur Webb, Paul Kench, “ I’m, Kench, Webb, Kench’s, Mohamed Aslam, Paul S, Aitana Gea Neuhaus, Gea Neuhaus, ” Ms, “, ” Paul Kench, Gerd Masselink, Peter Ganderton, Curt Storlazzi, Tim Scott, Dr, Scott, ”, it’s, “ They’ve, munch, Storlazzi, Thoriq Ibrahim, Malé, Hariyya Ibrahim, Hariyya, Adam Shakir, Adam, Farhath Ibrahim, Mohamed Muizzu, Hussain Rasheed, Rakeedhoo, Ashiya, Ashiya’s Organizations: Graphics, University of Plymouth, National University of Singapore, Nature Communications, Airbus, Google, United States Geological Survey Locations: Maldives, INDIA, MALDIVES, Polynesia, Micronesia, Indian, Malé, Himandhoo, Huvadhoo, ”, England, Dhigulaabadhoo, Wade, Plymouth, grinned, Hulhumalé, New City, Sand, City, Towers City, Himandhoo’s, Rakeedhoo

☆ The surprise election that could be a model for Democrats in 2024
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-22 | by ( Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +14 min

I talked to Samuel Freedman, a Columbia Journalism School professor, about his recent book about Humphrey and the 1948 Democratic convention in Philadelphia. The book’s title, “Into the Bright Sunshine,” is taken from a line in Humphrey’s rousing speech on civil rights. In 1968, the Democratic Party was operating under old rules in which primary voters actually had relatively little direct effect on delegates. When Strom Thurmond and the Dixiecrats bolted from the Democratic Party in 1948, that’s the beginning of the vast majority of the White South becoming Republicans, stepping away from the Democratic Party. Show me a major Republican politician in the MAGA movement who is a fervent supporter of civil rights legislation.

Persons: Joe Biden, Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, Humphrey, uninspiring, Harry Truman, Thomas Dewey, Samuel Freedman, Freedman, Biden, Truman WOLF, Donald Trump, FREEDMAN, Truman, – Henry Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Jill Stein, Minneapolis Hubert H, Lyndon, George McGovern, FDR hadn’t, Brown, Ed, WOLF, there’s, Martin Luther King, It’s, Lyndon Johnson, Bobby Kennedy, Eugene McCarthy, I’m, Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Byron Donalds, Abraham Lincoln, Adlai, Stevenson, Barry Goldwater, Nixon’s, Ronald, Reagan’s, Willie Horton, Jim Crow, MAGA, Mitt Romney’s, George Romney, William Scranton, Edward Brooke, that’s Organizations: CNN —, House, Republican, Minneapolis, Columbia Journalism School, Democratic, Democratic Party, Civil Rights Movement, RFK Jr, Democratic National Convention, Civil, Chicago, CNN, Civil Rights, Southern Democrats, South Carolina Democrat, Republicans, South, JFK, Trump, Republican Party –, LBJ, Southern, Republican Party, Michigan Gov, Pennsylvania Gov, NAACP Locations: Israel, Chicago, Vietnam, New York, Philadelphia, America, ‘, Harlem, Minneapolis, Alabama, Southern, Montgomery, ’, Florida, Lincoln, Massachusetts

☆ Chipotle's latest marketing campaign shows how restaurants are getting creative to win your lunch break
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-21 | by ( Dan Defrancesco | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

In today's big story, we're looking at Chipotle's newest pitch in the big business that is winning your lunch break. Market research firm Future Markets Insights pegged the lunch takeout market at $215.3 billion in 2022 . Chipotle's latest marketing campaign shows how creative restaurants are getting to nab your lunch order. Bitcoin's cooldown might be a warning for the stock market. A Stifel strategist predicted a late-summer stock market decline based on bitcoin's 10% sell-off in the past few weeks.

Persons: —, Chelsea Jia Feng, Keith Lee, Alyssa Powell, haven't, Taco Bell, Tim Hortons, Burger King, sarayut Thaneerat, Tyler Le, Ken Griffin, Bitcoin's, isn't, That's, Jensen Huang's, Satya Nadella's, Marc Piasecki, Elon Musk, They're, Alfie, Alfie Health, Donald Trump, Dan DeFrancesco, Jordan Parker Erb, Hallam Bullock, George Glover, Annie Smith, Amanda Yen Organizations: Service, Business, nab, bros, Chipotle, Getty, Brands, KFC, Taco, BI Citadel, Sunshine State, Congressional, Nasdaq, Apple, Apple Intelligence, Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Elon Locations: Cava, Illinois, Florida, China, New York, London

☆ The 40 Best Songs of 2024 (So Far)
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-20 | by ( Jon Pareles | Lindsay Zoladz | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new songs. After six months of listening, here’s what they have on repeat. LINDSAY ZOLADZFollowing her worldwide 2023 hit “Water,” Tyla pulls away from temptation in “Safer,” harnessing the log-drum beat and sparse, subterranean bass lines of amapiano. Her choral call-and-response vocals carry South African tradition into the electronic wilderness of 21st-century romance. JON PARELESOne We MissedAt once strobe-lit and silky, Ariana Grande appropriately channels Robyn — the patron saint of crying in the club — on this nimbly sung, melancholic pop hit, a highlight from her bittersweet seventh album, “Eternal Sunshine.” ZOLADZ

Persons: Sabrina Carpenter, LINDSAY ZOLADZ, Tyla, JON PARELES, Ariana Grande, Robyn —, ” Organizations: The New York Times, Spotify, Apple Music

☆ Ariana Grande explains her drastic voice changes in viral interview clip
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-19 | by ( Marianne Garvey | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Ariana Grande has a vocal range to impress. The singer was on a recent episode of “Podcrushed,” where the pitch of her voice changed during the conversation. When she starts speaking, Grande’s voice sounds deeper before it suddenly sounds higher in pitch. The clip quickly went viral, with one X (formerly Twitter) user writing, “this voice change is sending me regular Ariana was coming out for a second.”Another wrote, “THE SWITCH IN THE VOICE PLEASE HELP ME.”Grande saw comments on TikTok, where she set the record straight. “habit (speaking like this for two years) and also vocal health :),” she explained.

Persons: CNN — Ariana Grande, “, Ariana, ”, ” Grande, Brandy, Monica Organizations: CNN, ” Locations: ”

☆ Disease, drought and alternative fruits: The orange juice industry is in crisis
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Sam Meredith | In Samuelmeredith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A worker at a citrus fruit farm separates the tangerines for sale on June 6, 2024 in Piedade dos Gerais, in Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Pedro Vilela | Getty Images News | Getty ImagesThe orange juice industry is reeling. The crisis has even prompted some orange juice manufacturers and blenders to explore whether alternative fruits, such as mandarins, apples and pears, can be used to dilute the drink. Bottles of Simply Orange orange juice are displayed for sale in a grocery store on September 28, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. High incidence of citrus greening

Persons: Pedro Vilela, Kees, Mario Tama, What's, greening, —, Greening Organizations: Getty, Vegetable Juice Association, CNBC, Intercontinental Exchange Locations: Piedade dos Gerais, Minas Gerais State, Brazil, Los Angeles , California, New York, Florida

☆ Paris Olympics: Triathlon events hang in the balance over E. Coli levels in the Seine
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-18 | by ( Billy Stockwell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Fluidion’s testing has found that, on average, E. Coli levels in the Siene between early April and late May were just under 3400 MPN/100mL. The highest E. Coli levels recorded by Fluidion were 23590 MPN/100mL on May 2 and 13090 MPN/100mL on May 30, according to Angelescu. But if poor water quality persisted, the triathlon would have to be downgraded to a duathlon with no swimming, the organization confirmed. Angelescu said that “significant infrastructure projects” by the city of Paris designed to improve water quality will have a “substantial” impact. Triathlon athletes swim in the Seine river during the men's 2023 World Triathlon Olympic Games test event in Paris on August 18, 2023.

Persons: Pont Alexandre III, –, Jeanne Lehair, Dan Angelescu, Tim Clayton, Corbis, Fluidion, Angelescu, ”, Bertrand Guay, “, Anne Hidalgo, Stephane De Sakutin, Mike Cavendish, ” Cavendish, Probiotic, Cavenish, Phil Dunne, dietitians, Tim Harradine, ” Harradine, Emmanuel Dunand, “ It’s, Cavendish, Harradine, Bea Adeleke Organizations: CNN, Palais, Pont, Eiffel, Triathlon, Games, Getty, Surfrider Foundation, “, ”, Paris, British Triathlon, ’, Olympics Locations: Seine, Paris, France, French, AFP, Pont Alexandre, Austerlitz, Luxembourg, Oxford, Cambridge, Rio de, Guanabara, Lehair, ”

☆ Oppressive heat wave will broil huge swaths of the East with record-breaking temperatures this week
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-17 | by ( Mary Gilbert | Elizabeth Wolfe | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Some areas could endure the longest heat wave they’ve seen in decades, the National Weather Service’s Weather Prediction Center said. Tens of millions of people who aren’t used to heat this intense will be sweating in temperatures well into the 90s this week. Through the rest of the week, the most extreme heat risk is in place from the Great Lakes into the Northeast, according to the National Weather Service. Humidity will also join forces with extreme heat to create triple-digit heat indices – measurements of how hot the human body feels – in some areas. Chicago residents could feel heat indices between 95 and 105 degrees through next week, the NWS in Chicago warned.

Persons: CNN’s Robert Shackelford Organizations: CNN, National Weather Service, Prediction, NWS Locations: South, Midwest, Great, Chicago, St, Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, Pittsburgh , New York City, Boston, Pittsburgh, New York, New England

☆ As Social Security faces looming fund depletion, there's fierce debate over whether a commission can help
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-15 | by ( Lorie Konish | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

"A vote for a commission is a vote to cut Social Security," the man shouted before he was escorted off the floor. How the last major reforms, in 1983, came togetherPresident Ronald Reagan signs the Social Security Act Amendment into law on April 20, 1983. The changes involved taxes on Social Security benefits, increases to payroll tax rates, a future increase to the retirement age and a near-term postponement of cost-of-living adjustments. Social Security Commission Chairman Alan Greenspan, left, shakes hands with Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, prior to a Social Security hearing on Feb. 15, 1983. Lawmakers divided on best path forwardToday, lawmakers are divided on the best path forward to address Social Security.

Persons: —, Scott Peters, Peters, Bill Huizenga, Joe Manchin, Mitt Romney, — Rep, John Larson, Connecticut —, It's, " Larson, Larson, Nancy Altman, Ronald Reagan, Alan Greenspan, Greenspan, Jim Baker, Reagan, Tip O'Neill, Robert M, Ball, O'Neill, Sen, Charles Grassley, Bob Dole, John Danforth, Altman, Bruce D, Schobel, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, California —, they're, Hakeem Jeffries, Conn, Brian Higgins, Jimmy Gomez, Jeffries, Dan Kildee, Richard Neal, Tom Williams Organizations: iStock, Social, Social Security, AARP, CNBC, Rep, Democratic, Corbis, National Commission, Social Security Reform, Greenspan, Federal Reserve, House, White, Finance, Economic Policy Institute, Republican, Greenspan Commission, Senate Finance, Bettmann, Getty, Congress, Democratic House, White House, Democrats, Security, Capitol Visitor Center, CQ, Inc Locations: Sens, R, Utah, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Iowa, California, D

☆ I'm an only child who was raised by my grandmother. My childhood was lonely, but I'm still choosing to be child-free.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-13 | by ( Marissa Higgins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

I´m in my 30s, but I joke that I´ve been a grandma since birth. I'm an only child, and my grandmother raised me while my parents were out of the picture. My grandmother's house was on a peninsula, a seven-mile stretch of the Atlantic on the south shore of Massachusetts. I'd never been able to see my grandmother from the water and dreaded seeing her become a blurry speck on shore. I also don't trust myself to teach someone about the world when I´ve barely figured it out myself.

Persons: I'm, aren't, ´, couldn't, I'd, —, I've, Lasik, It's, wouldn't Organizations: Service, Pride Locations: Massachusetts, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Seattle, Caribbean, Iceland, Montreal, France

☆ I had a miscarriage in my 20s and it confirmed what I always knew: I didn't want to be a mom
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Becky Martin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Becky Martin grew up surrounded by kids and didn't think she could balance her career and motherhood. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . I spent my teens babysitting cousins and knew from a young age that parenthood was far from sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows. Back then, when I thought about parenthood, I couldn't imagine balancing my career — centered on working with kids — while still being an ever-present mom. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Becky Martin, — Organizations: Service, Business

☆ Starbucks is teaming up with an Oscar-winning producer to make Hollywood-style movies and series
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Read previewAdd Starbucks to the growing list of brands trying to crack Hollywood. The coffee company announced on Monday the creation of Starbucks Studios to create original entertainment. Related storiesIt's working with Sugar23 — the production company headed by Michael Sugar, best known for the Oscar-winning "Spotlight" — to develop projects. Starbucks' forays into original entertainment go back to 2016, when it released "Upstanders," a series of 10 written, video, and podcast stories about people creating positive change. "Starbucks is being very bold with this but really very smart … You can't reach 30 million people on NBC anymore."

Persons: —, Christy Cain, Sugar23, Michael Sugar, Sugar, Trevor Noah's, Max, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer's, Reese Witherspoon's Organizations: Service, Starbucks Studios, Business, InBev, Procter & Gamble, Time Studios, Productions, Amazon's, Tribeca, NBC, Brands, Netflix, Apple Locations: Rwanda

☆ Starbucks is teaming up with an Oscar-winning producer to make movies and series
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

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