Low-Income Americans Can Now Eat Better, Thanks to Permanent Food Benefit Boost

By Rachel Puryear The Biden Administration just announced that Americans receiving food benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) will soon receive a 25% increase in their benefits. This will be effective October 2021, and will automatically and indefinitely apply to all recipients of the SNAP program. Although food benefits through SNAP have been…

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Reducing Pay for Remote Workers Will Present Interesting Legal Questions – Including Unexpected Complexities

By Rachel Puryear As many people who worked remotely during the pandemic will now continue to do so permanently, some tech companies such as Google are weighing cutting pay for remote workers. Naturally, this gives rise to a hot debate. The Employers’ Perspective: Google’s side of the argument is that they do and always have…

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Nomadic Life Requires Rethinking What Success Looks Like

By Rachel Puryear Since the mid-20th century in the U.S., most of us have been brought up with a certain ideal of success: Big expensive house, luxurious car, stylish clothes, moving up the corporate ladder at a prestigious company. For some people, this model works for them. There is also, however, a dark side to…

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Eleventh Hour Eviction Ban Extension – Who’s Covered, What They Can Do

By Rachel Puryear ** NOTE: This article is no longer up to date. The CDC’s decision to extend the eviction moratorium was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court subsequent to publication, but this remains up for the links to aid organizations. ** After the previous eviction moratorium expired on July 31, the Centers for Disease…

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No Student Loan Payments Due this Holiday Season – the Freeze is Extended!

By Rachel Puryear Around the holidays, this is a favorite meme I often see circulating: I don’t think even Santa can pull that one off, but the Biden Administration did give student debtors everywhere a bit of relief that will make for a lot of brighter holidays – in the form of the student loan…

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No, Work-From-Homers Aren’t Killing the Economy. They May Be Shifting it Closer to Home.

By Rachel Puryear, Digital Nomad Economists from Goldman Sachs recently predicted that for the long term; Americans will be much more likely to work from home some or all of the time, compared with before the pandemic. CNN Business Journalist Anneken Tappe claims that the permanence of remote and semi-remote work for many people hurts…

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From Equal Opportunities to Unfettered World Travel – What’s Driving the Standoff Over Remote Work

By Rachel Puryear As workplaces reopen, employees’ desire to work remotely is significantly greater than employers’ willingness to allow such, collectively. More workers than ever before don’t want to go back to the way things were, and employers anxious to get remote-during pandemic workers 100% back to the office are already facing resistance. Why do…

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An Appeals Court Allowed Private Student Loans to Be Discharged in Bankruptcy – This Could Change the Tide

By Rachel Puryear If you have student loans, or you read this blog regularly, you know that for many years now, struggling student loan borrowers have faced a very uphill battle to try to discharge their student debts in bankruptcy proceedings. However, a recent ruling from a New York-based federal appeals court could soon put…

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In More Workplaces, Bringing Pets is on the Table in Returning to Offices.

By Rachel Puryear As many office-bound workers return to the office following the vaccination rollout, more employees than before might be able to bring their furry (or perhaps scaly) companions to the office. Many proud human pet-parents grew accustomed to having their pets around daily while they worked at home, and the pets likewise became…

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San Francisco Makes Progress Against a Pollutant Worse than Cars

By Rachel Puryear If you live or work anywhere near any lawn, you’ve probably at some point been rudely disturbed the ear-torturing, whiny roar of someone else’s gas-powered leaf blower. You have probably also felt the aggravation of allergies that follows, due to dirt, mold, and other allergens getting blown into the air. This is…

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