Road Trips, Parks and Places to See, Making a Living Remotely, Van/RV Life, and How Wealth is Built – and Lost
By Rachel Puryear Whether you like to buy lottery tickets or not, you have probably heard stories of lotto winners (and some mega celebrities) who quickly became fantastically rich, only to go broke within a few short years. Most people are puzzled as to how one could come into such ruin quickly following incredible luck…
Read more From Riches to Rags: Lessons We Can Learn from Lottery Winners Who Went Broke
By Rachel Puryear If you’re planning a road trip of more than a few hours, you might need to stop and rest somewhere along the way that’s safe, and preferably free. In that spirit, here’s your guide to the do’s and dont’s of highway rest stops. Rest areas are found every so often all along…
Read more For Your Next Road Trip, a Guide to Highway Rest Areas
By Rachel Puryear Dear readers, when I first started this blog, I did so out of a strong belief in personal freedom. The principle that people should be empowered to live their lives on their terms, and also respect and defend others’ right to do the same; drove me to keep writing and building this…
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…
Read more Low-Income Americans Can Now Eat Better, Thanks to Permanent Food Benefit Boost
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…
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…
Read more Nomadic Life Requires Rethinking What Success Looks Like
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…
Read more Eleventh Hour Eviction Ban Extension – Who’s Covered, What They Can Do
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…
Read more No Student Loan Payments Due this Holiday Season – the Freeze is Extended!
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…
Read more No, Work-From-Homers Aren’t Killing the Economy. They May Be Shifting it Closer to Home.
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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