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Maybe your personal budget isn’t as generous as you’d like it to be. Perhaps you’re getting tired of your nine-to-five grind. Or maybe you just want to earn some extra spending money. There are plenty of side hustles for folks in your shoes, from legitimate ways…
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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 is one of the most important federal employment statutes on the books. It governs employers’ obligations and employees rights’ around such issues as minimum wage, overtime pay, child labor, and labor costs in general….
Last year, my wife and I moved back to the major city we’d left four years before. In the intervening years, we’d lived in three separate dwellings in two smaller communities, moving an average of once per year. During the second…
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My wife graduated from medical school with more than $300,000 in student loans to her name. During her three-year residency, some of that debt sat in deferment, quietly accruing about $20 per day in interest. The larger non-deferred balance grew, albeit…
In the fall of 2017, the most recent semester for which statistics are available, 15.7% of all U.S. higher education students (about 3.1 million) were enrolled in institutions that exclusively offer distance education courses, according to data from the National…
Most American workers qualify for up to 12 weeks of job-protected leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), a 1993 law that forms the basis for many employers’ parental and convalescent leave programs. With limited exceptions, FMLA-eligible employees can’t…
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 5,250 U.S. workers died from injuries sustained at work in 2018. That represented a 2% increase from the previous year, although the actual rate of fatal work injuries remained unchanged due to…
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