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Anthony Edwards has busy ears. There are the whispers from Timberwolves teammates, as he’s heading back to the huddle, as he’s sitting on the bench, as he’s stepping out of the postgame showers. There is veteran guard Austin Rivers’ counsel and hype from the locker next door. Sitting courtside before every pregame warmup, Edwards attends assistant coach Joe Boylan’s private film lessons with an iPad in their lap. He’s wrapped in a constant exchange with head coach Chris Finch,… Source link

Disney (DIS) faces an ultra-competitive landscape as it gets ready to roll out its $7.99 Disney+ ad tier in December, one month after Netflix’s (NFLX) much-anticipated debut. Despite the slowdown in ad spending, analysts remain bullish on the profitability prospects of ad-supported services. That said, investors will be watching Disney’s execution carefully as the fight for ad dollars escalates. “Disney has a burden of the brand where there’s a higher expectation in the quality of the ads… Source link

After recently overhauling a “glitch” in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Biden administration is now addressing another issue plaguing the American health care system: medical debt. On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced the administration’s four-step plan aimed at increasing consumer protections for Americans billed for health care costs. These measures include holding medical providers and debt collectors “accountable for harmful practices,” reducing the role medical debt… Source link

Parents are shouldering a lot of the burden amid the student loan debt crisis, and a new report reveals which schools have left the highest number of indebted parents. The report by the Texas Public Policy Foundation — which uses new data released by the Department of Education (ED)’s College Scorecard to examine typical college Parent PLUS loan debt — contributes to a burgeoning trend of transparency that’s aimed at scrutinizing the cost of tuition. Parent PLUS loans are “almost like the… Source link