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Harvard raised tuition to $75,538 and continues charging students to wash their clothes, not out of necessity, but out of a refusal to stop extracting. The laundry system was revamped this fall, introducing a third-party app that forces students to preload $10 just to avoid extra fees, turning a basic chore into a financial hurdle. …
August delivered a jolt the labor market could not absorb. Employers added 22,000 jobs, far below the 75,000 forecast, exposing a system that is faltering under pressure. Unemployment climbed to 4.3 percent while wage growth inched 0.3 percent month-over-month and 3.7 percent year-over-year, missing projections. Each number reflects more than performance. It reveals cracks threatening …
Nobody’s putting this on a billboard. But the numbers are sitting in plain view. Over the life of a car, the difference between driving a fuel sipper and a gas hog isn’t just noticeable. It’s punishing. Take two vehicles. One gets 35 miles per gallon. The other guzzles at 13. Run both for 100,000 miles. …
It’s wild how much has changed in such a short time. The buyout program initiated by Trump and pushed forward by Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has seen a staggering 75,000 federal workers walk away with a package they just couldn’t refuse. With the federal workforce swelling to over 2 million, Musk’s vision of slashing …
And it only cost us (taxpayers) $75,000… 🤦♂️https://t.co/PfwA81eU11 — Unbiased Crime Report (@UnbiasedCrime) July 5, 2024 A Baltimore jury awarded $75,000 on Wednesday to a man who was sprayed with tear gas at close range and tackled by police during the 2015 civil unrest following the death of Freddie Gray. Larry Lomax filed an excessive …
by TonyLiberty The cost of housing in the United States has reached an all-time high, with Americans now needing to make $114,600 per year to afford the median-priced home. To put things in perspective, the median household income is only $75,000. Homeownership is becoming increasingly out of reach for many Americans. If you’re looking to …
by Chris Black France is about to pass a bill which would criminalize insulting Israel. This law would punish anti-Israel speech with multiple years of jail time and tens of thousands of euros in fines. Note that these same lawmakers have yet to propose any law that would punish insulting France or French people. https://twitter.com/davidrkadler/status/1720461371316326556 …