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BackyardProduction / Getty Images/iStockphoto So far, about 2.8 million Americans have signed a petition calling for $2,000 monthly stimulus checks for every American. This petition was started by Stephanie Bonin, a Colorado restaurant owner, and was first posted on Change.org last year, reports Business Insider. See: Fourth Stimulus Checks Are Coming From These States — Is Yours on the List?Stimulus Update: States Give Out Thousands of Bonus $1,000 Checks – Will You Get One? Since gaining… Source link

When the monthly Child Tax Credit payments start this week, the Meyette family of Fontana, California, will see their household income increase by 25% — a much-needed boost at this time. Erica Meyette recently underwent surgery and her husband Jonathan, who is the sole breadwinner, missed two weeks of work to care for her. The $600 the family will get for their two daughters will go to expenses, savings, and any medical debt they incur. “So $600 a month is an increase of big proportions… Source link

@lol.airee/TikTok A viral TikTok video shows a woman duct-taped to her chair on an American Airlines flight.  The airline said the woman tried to exit the plane midflight and attacked flight attendants. The passenger who filmed the video criticized American Airlines for how it handled the situation. See more stories on Insider’s business page. A TikTok video shows a woman duct-taped to her seat on an American Airlines flight after an incident in which the airline says she attacked flight… Source link

Former president Donald Trump on Wednesday filed three purported federal class action lawsuits against Facebook (FB), Google-owned YouTube (GOOG, GOOGL) and Twitter (TWTR) their respective CEOs, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey.  According to Trump, the lawsuits are intended to stop the platforms from censoring speech and from removing user accounts. The three suits claim the tech giants violated the First Amendment’s free speech protections, though the amendment protects… Source link

Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan As the last major deployments of American and NATO troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, one of the most important milestones in their departure was the closing last week of Bagram Airfield, once the largest US base in the country. At various points over the last 20 years Bagram has been so big that troops stationed there could enjoy Subway and Pizza Hut, but another consequence of having so many young Americans together in the one spot was that in more recent years… Source link

Happy birthday, Tommy Kono. Google In 1942, the then-12-year-old Tommy Kono was forced into an… Source link

The cost of health care in the U.S. has grown worse in recent years as Americans continue taking on unprecedented levels of medical debt. The issue has gotten so bad that one New York-based 501 charity, RIP Medical Health, uses donations to buy up people’s medical debt. The organization recently announced a purchase of $278 million in medical debt owed by roughly 82,000 patients in the Tennessee and Virginia regions. “Medical debt is the no. 1 cause of bankruptcy in the United States,… Source link

Google From a young age, Hisaye Yamamoto was familiar with barriers — some put up by Japanese… Source link

President Joe Biden is calling on Congress to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans in order to pay for programs designed to support families and children — including two years of free community college, paid family leave, efforts to make child care more affordable and universal preschool.  Biden will outline the American Families Plan in his first address to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night. The proposal — the second phase of his plan to overhaul the U.S. economy —… Source link

The U.S. coronavirus vaccine rollout is an ongoing success story. Nevertheless, the number of daily confirmed cases remains over 50,000 and is rising again. “We’re definitely in a different spot than we were a few months ago,” Dr. Payal Patel, an infectious diseases physician based out of Ann Arbor, Mich., said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “But the thing is, we’re beginning to see this big surge. And who are the people that are coming into the hospital? It’s unvaccinated… Source link