Shannon Rose was evicted from Gallery on the River last fall, after withholding rent following a leaking window. (Johania Charles for The Miami Times) Save National eviction filings are up 50% from pre-COVID numbers according to Princeton University’s Eviction Lab – and people who fail to pay rent for whatever reason face a greater risk Read More…
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Food Stamps: Direct Payments To Arrive In Four Days In These Four States
Food stamps: Direct payments to arrive in four days in these four states Recipients of benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are set to receive a new payment throughout July.Recipients usually see their SNAP benefits reloaded on the same day each month, with the date depending on a recipient’s Social Security number, last name, case number, or account number. UNIVERSAL Read More…
Black Father and Son Summer Camps To Teach Literacy
Nationwide — Kevon Chisolm and his 16-year-old son, Kamari, the founders of Junior Wallstreeters, Inc. a non-profit, are offering online summer camps for children for the fourth year in a row. Their camps are great for preventing learning loss and offer fun environments for students to learn wealth-building concepts with other like-minded students. The course Read More…
Graduate Survives Earthquake in Haiti Now Ready to Pursue Ph.D. at UGA
Though most students face hardships during their academic journey, Marie Delcy’s story of overcoming is remarkable. Marie Delcy was born in Haiti. Her parents planned for Delcy to complete her primary education in Haiti and move to the US to finish college and graduate school, but those plans changed in 2010. On January 12, Read More…
How Plastics Are Poisoning Us
They both release and attract toxic chemicals, and appear everywhere from human placentas to chasms thirty-six thousand feet beneath the sea. Will we ever be rid of them? Annual production of plastic exceeds eight hundred billion pounds; much of it ends up as microplastics, spreading across the ocean.Illustration by Daniel Liévano Listen to this story Read More…
The Case Against Engagement Rings
Jewelers sent out an alarm earlier this month that people are not buying engagement rings. Sales at Signet, the U.S. jewelry giant that owns Zales, Kay, Jared, and Diamonds Direct, were down almost 10% compared to this time last year. De Beers, the biggest diamond seller in the world, says sales of rough diamonds, the Read More…








