In 10 days, 100 low-income entrepreneurs in Ann Arbor, Michigan, are set to begin receiving monthly payments of $528 as part of the Guaranteed Income to Grow Ann Arbor program. Administered by the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions team, this two-year pilot initiative commenced its distribution of payments in January to preselected candidates. Kristin Seefeldt, […]
Taylor Swift has issued another call to her social media followers to go out and vote, though the singer did not specify who they ought to vote for on Super Tuesday. Swift’s post directed her followers to Vote.org, which helps people get registered to vote and see which candidates are on the ballot. Her post […]
Russia and China are looking to put a nuclear power plant on the moon in the next decade, which they hope would one day lead to lunar settlements, according to Russia’s space agency Roscosmos. Yuri Borisov, the head of Roscosmos, said both countries have been working together on the project and that Russia has helped […]
Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weighing the possibility of joining the Libertarian Party amid difficulties in securing ballot access ahead of November. Kennedy left the Democratic Party in his long-shot bid against President Joe Biden in October to become an independent candidate. But getting on state ballots is an expensive challenge for […]
President Joe Biden is name-checking the Cookie Monster as part of his latest attempt to convince the public his administration is doing all it can to counter rising consumer prices before November’s general election, more broadly blaming companies and not his economic policies. “Some of the small snack companies think you won’t even notice what […]
Montana’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will conclude sending its March payments, worth up to $1,751, tomorrow. SNAP payments in Montana are distributed over five days every month, beginning on the second. The payments started going out on Saturday and will run through Wednesday. Recipients get their payments on days according to their SNAP case number, account number, Social Security number, or last […]
The White House is not saying whether President Joe Biden will answer the call of Republicans to mention the murder of University of Georgia student Laken Riley during his State of the Union address. “I don’t have anything to share about the president’s speech as it relates to that particular question,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre […]
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has been charged with obstruction of justice in a far-reaching corruption case focused on whether he used his influence as New Jersey’s senior senator to enrich himself and his wife. The Justice Department first charged Menendez in September, accusing him of benefitting the governments of Egypt and then Qatar in his […]
Maryland’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program will conclude the distribution of its March payments in 18 days. Roughly 13% of Maryland’s population, roughly 772,700 people, relies on food stamps. The amount received varies depending on income and the size of the household, but the average amount is $180. Food stamps are distributed in the state from March 4 to March 23, […]
The Dartmouth College men’s basketball team overwhelmingly voted to unionize, moving one step closer to being the first labor union for NCAA college athletes. The vote was announced on Tuesday, with the 15-man roster voting 13-2 in favor of joining Service Employees International Union Local 560, which already represents other Dartmouth employees. Despite the vote, […]
