Americans over the age of 60 reported $7.7 billion in total fraud losses in 2025, up 59% from 2024 to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center. The average loss was $38,500. “The most challenging calls that we get in my office involve elder fraud,” said Rodnee Warr, a gerontologist and executive
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Being a parent is an incredible and selfless gift. However, it also brings challenges that few people feel ready to carry, as family life becomes more scheduled and harder to shut off. Modern parenting now comes with pressures earlier generations did not face. In a 2024 advisory, former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy cited social media
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There’s a predictable cycle to the real estate market that happens every September: As the school year kicks off, family buyers pack up and head for the sidelines, leaving listed properties sitting quietly with the falling leaves. Peak summer real estate is noisy, expensive, and packed with emotional buyers overpaying for houses. For everyday retail
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“The emotions involved are not for the faint of heart,” says just one of 1,144 family caregivers from the 2026 Caregivers in Crisis survey conducted by Aeroflow Urology. Today, nearly one in four adults in the U.S. is a family caregiver. For them, supporting a loved one means providing daily assistance, often unpaid, while trying
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Deciding where to teach is important. Along with finding the right school or district, there’s the matter of finding an apartment to call home. It may seem simple at first: Look for an apartment with a manageable commute, space to unwind after the final bell, and perhaps a balcony where you can work on lesson
Continue ReadingFederal time-use data shows that putting things away and keeping a household organized takes real time every day, and women are nearly twice as likely as men to do it. Professional organizers say a set home for every item, a short daily reset and storage built around the routine can cut that time down.
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When the rain started falling at around 3 p.m., Matt Bormann knew his work was finished for the afternoon. He ducked into the equipment shed on his corn and soybean farm in rural Iowa, mixed a Crown and Coke, and sat down to chew the fat with his friends. They proceeded to vent about some
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Halloween is a season for things that go bump in the night. However, in retirement planning, the scariest things are usually quieter: decisions that seem benign, but can haunt you for years. While you can change direction in some cases, other choices can’t be easily reversed. The Retirement Group, a division of Wealth Enhancement, looks at
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Your joints ache. Your knees creak when you climb stairs. Your hands feel stiff every morning. If you’re a woman in your 40s or 50s, these symptoms might not be random aging: they’re likely connected to menopause. The relationship between declining estrogen and joint pain is well-documented, yet many women don’t realize their hormones are
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Love it or hate it, clothing has often been designed around an idea of how the body should look. At the North Carolina Museum of History, The Shape of Fashion exhibits how corsets squeezed waists smaller while padded undergarments added curves wherever fashion suggested they should be. And while styles have changed over time, the
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Kaiser Permanente nurses who answer advice and triage calls say their duty of care for patients is being increasingly threatened by workplace surveillance. Seven current and former nurses told The Markup that those who spend more than 15 minutes on a call with a patient routinely face criticism from Kaiser management or get called into performance
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DataOne, the Microsoft-linked New Jersey datacenter recently hit with a $1 million fine for running unpermitted generators, emitted large amounts of health-harming air pollution for nearly a year before state regulators stepped in, according to public records obtained by Floodlight. The Vineland facility’s 62 gas-fired generators became public in August after a Floodlight/Guardian visual investigation found them
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Automated expense reporting replaces manual receipt collection, email approval chains, and month-end reconciliation with software that captures spend at the point of purchase, enforces your policy in real time, and syncs approved transactions directly to your accounting system. The result is a finance team that closes faster, catches policy violations before they compound, and stops
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When people take a medication, they trust that it contains the right amount of active ingredient and is free of harmful contamination. Manufacturing and test records help verify that trust. When those records are missing or incomplete, it’s harder to establish whether a drug meets quality standards. In 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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Privacy management used to be a one-time compliance exercise. As privacy regulations, AI use and third-party ecosystems expand, it’s now an ongoing operational function. Many privacy regulations today expect organizations to demonstrate accountability, including what governance, technical, and organizational safeguards they use to protect personal information. The specifics may vary across jurisdictions, but the takeaway
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For the last year, Niagara Falls High School senior Ciara Johnson has ripped up tile, torn out walls and built custom cabinets in her high school construction class. To get a taste of each of the trades, the students here have been renovating the former cafeteria kitchen in the old high school campus downtown, a
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Your credit score is an important metric that lenders and credit cards use to determine if you qualify for financing. While that score isn’t important to your car insurance company, they likely use the same underlying credit data to calculate another number that can significantly impact what you pay for coverage: your credit-based insurance score.
Continue ReadingMidwest and Rust Belt industrial operators are now facing historic electricity price spikes, which are driven by AI data center load. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA), PJM capacity prices jumped from $28.92 per megawatt-day in 2024 to $329.17/MW-day in 2026. This grid strain is hitting the factory floor directly: Industrial
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A few years ago, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a formal advisory describing loneliness and social isolation as an epidemic — the same kind of warning used in the past for public health matters like smoking. He compared the physical health impact of chronic isolation to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Loneliness doesn’t always mean being alone,
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A Place for Mom surveyed more than 1,000 adults ages 40 to 80 in June 2026 to understand how they picture later life, what they expect may change, and how much they’ve done to prepare. While most respondents wanted to remain in control of their lives as they age, this research reveals a consequential gap between
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