Month: May 2018

8 Frozen Margarita Recipes That’ll Silence The Shamers

If you’ve ever felt a nagging sense of shame every time you crave a frozen margarita, you shouldn’t. But statements like these may be the reason you feel that way: “There’s no shame in frozen cocktails.” “Purists disdain frozen margaritas.” “Frozen cocktails carry a good deal of baggage in the cultural imagination. … Your first

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China-based online education companies just launched an aggressive hiring spree in search of U.S. teachers

Teachers have long supplemented their incomes by tutoring. And there’s perhaps never been a better, or easier, time to do it than right now.  The reason: China-based online education companies are in an apparent race with each other to hire U.S. teachers who’d like to work from home this summer and, using their webcams, “teach

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Rockets blow big lead again as Warriors set up Cavaliers NBA finals rematch

Kevin Durant scored 34 points and the Golden State Warriors are heading to their fourth straight NBA finals after fighting back from another big deficit Kevin Durant scored 34 points and the Golden State Warriors are heading to their fourth straight NBA finals after fighting back from another big deficit with a huge third quarter.

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Why Are Boomers Still Working? Maybe We Just Don’t Know How To Retire

Ann Brenoff’s “On The Fly” is a column about navigating growing older and a few other things.   I am a 68-year-old baby boomer who still works full time. I am precisely who younger people point to when they hear the reports that more of them can’t find jobs and more of me still have

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Interesting Talks About Student Loans

  Published on Jul 2, 2016 “Once upon a time in America,” says professor Sajay Samuel, “going to college did not mean graduating with debt.” Today, higher education has become a consumer product — costs have skyrocketed, saddling students with a combined debt of over $1 trillion, while universities and loan companies make massive profits.

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Oliver North to be NRA’s new president

Washington (CNN)Oliver North, the Fox News contributor and the central figure in the Iran-Contra scandal, will be the National Rifle Association’s new president, the group announced Monday. In his statement, LaPierre compared North favorably to Charlton Heston, the Hollywood icon who was once president of the group. North will become president “within a few weeks,”

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NYT: For-profit college fraud investigations scaled back under Betsy DeVos

Washington (CNN)A Department of Education team that had looked into fraud and abuse by for-profit colleges has been dismantled to the point that it has “effectively killed investigations” into institutions where top hires of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos once worked, The New York Times reported Sunday, citing current and former employees. An investigation into DeVry

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America’s Student Debt Crisis

Millions of Americans who went to college are now crippled by their student loans. “Debt is the first thing I factor in all of my decisions,” says Jessie Suren, who graduated with a criminal justice degree and is struggling to pay off her debt. Currently, there is a focus because of external factors to public

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This Is The Biggest Life Event That Millennials Don’t See Coming

Ann Brenoff’s “On The Fly” is a weekly column about navigating growing older and a few other things.   Dear millennials,   Sorry to be the bearer of bad news here, but you are about to get sucked into a hellhole, unlike anything you’ve ever previously imagined. It will devastate you, leave you emotionally spent, make

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6 Legit Ways To Lower Your Student Loan Payments

Like millions of other Americans, financial journalist Janet Alvarez was laid off from her job in 2009. She decided to ride out the recession by pursuing her MBA, racking up six figures in student loan debt along the way.   But when she graduated, the economy was still sputtering, and there were few jobs available

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