Month: December 2022

After decades of rapid population increase, Florida now is the nation’s fastest-growing state for the first time since 1957. That’s according to a new report from the Census Bureau’s Vintage 2022 population estimates released today. Florida’s population increased by 1.9% to 22,244,823 between 2021 and 2022, surpassing Idaho, the previous year’s fastest-growing state. “While Florida
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As holiday shoppers and travelers struggle with severe shortages of retail and hospitality staff, parents are dealing with another shortage—a lack of men to portray Santa Claus. The “Santa Shortage” tells us a lot about the post-pandemic labor market but also illustrates how so-called “shortages” often reflect deeply embedded racial and gender divisions. Let’s start
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Parents and children participate in a demonstration organized by the ParentsTogether Foundation in support of the child tax credit portion of the Build Back Better bill outside of the U.S. Capitol on Dec. 13, 2021. Sarah Silbiger | Bloomberg | Getty Images Washington lawmakers are rushing to get as much done as possible before the
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During the 2022 proxy season, an old question resurfaced: Are investors receptive to corporate tax transparency proposals, and to what extent? Investors tested this question on proxy ballots at Amazon AMZN , Cisco, and Microsoft MSFT , and the results showed that tech shareholders are warming up to transparency, although they haven’t fully embraced it.
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In this article GOOGL Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT The National Football League announced Thursday its “Sunday Ticket” subscription package would go to Google‘s YouTube TV starting next season, marking the league’s second media rights deal with a streaming service. YouTube will pay roughly $2 billion a year for the residential rights of the
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As a special Christmas present to all of us, the Secure Act 2.0 is expected to become law right before the holiday. The SECURE Act 2.0 caught a ride on the $1.7 trillion omnibus spending bill that was unveiled on December 19. While the bill presents numerous changes to existing retirement savings and withdrawal rules,
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