Tag: Personal spending
Growth in Burkina Faso gold mining fuels human trafficking
SECACO, Burkina Faso — For months, human traffickers beat and drugged Blessing, hauling the 27-year-old from one gold mine encampment to the next, where...
How to travel safely and cheaply this summer
As vaccination rates inch upward , Americans are beginning to travel again. More than 10 times as many passengers passed through Transportation Security Administration...
Explainer: Capital gains tax hike targets wealthy investors
NEW YORK — After massive U.S. government spending helped send the stock market back to record heights, with even more potentially on the way,...
California mulls letting adults add parents to health plans
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California could become the only state to let adult children add their parents as dependents to their health insurance plans, a...
What’s in Biden speech? Lawmakers race to add priorities
WASHINGTON — Ahead of President Joe Biden’s address to Congress on Wednesday, lawmakers are intensifying the push to make sure key priorities are included...
UK court rules in ‘unhappy’ Russian family divorce saga
LONDON — Britain's high court ruled Wednesday that the son of a Russian billionaire conspired with his father to prevent his mother from getting...
LA homeless spending could near $1B as crisis rages
LOS ANGELES — Faced with an out-of-control homeless crisis, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on Monday will propose spending nearly $1 billion in the...
Surge in violence rattles Haiti as poverty, fear deepens
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The attack was brazen, streamed live on the internet: Men carrying big guns walked into a Holy Thursday church service, grabbed...
Millennial Money: How my travel credit card saved me $1,388
In 2020, I was looking forward to leaving Los Angeles for a socially distanced vacation in San Diego. I had stocked up on food,...
Liz Weston: 9 money numbers you need to know
Your doctor needs to know certain numbers to judge your physical health, such as your weight, your blood pressure and your cholesterol levels.
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