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The Grocery Inflation Reality: Why Food Costs 30% More and Won't Come Down

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The Grocery Inflation Reality: Why Food Costs 30% More and Won't Come Down

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The Gig Economy Lie: How 'Flexibility' Became Code for 'No Benefits'

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The Gig Economy Lie: How 'Flexibility' Became Code for 'No Benefits'

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The AI Decision-Making Bias: How Algorithms Decide Who Gets Jobs, Loans, and Justice

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The AI Decision-Making Bias: How Algorithms Decide Who Gets Jobs, Loans, and Justice

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The Car Payment Trap: How $800 Monthly Payments Became Normal

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The Car Payment Trap: How $800 Monthly Payments Became Normal

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The AI Monopoly Problem: Why Five Companies Control the Future of Intelligence

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The AI Monopoly Problem: Why Five Companies Control the Future of Intelligence

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Remote Work's Hidden Economic Impact: Why Your Local Coffee Shop Is Struggling

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Remote Work's Hidden Economic Impact: Why Your Local Coffee Shop Is Struggling

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From China to Mexico: How Supply-Chain Shifts Are Rewriting U.S. Manufacturing Jobs

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From China to Mexico: How Supply-Chain Shifts Are Rewriting U.S. Manufacturing Jobs

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Why Housing Is Unaffordable in 2025: The Five Forces Squeezing Buyers and Renters

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Why Housing Is Unaffordable in 2025: The Five Forces Squeezing Buyers and Renters

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The Hidden Tax: How 4-6% Inflation Cuts Your Take-Home Pay (Even With a Raise)

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The Hidden Tax: How 4-6% Inflation Cuts Your Take-Home Pay (Even With a Raise)

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AI vs. Human Workers: The $2 Trillion Productivity Revolution That's Changing Everything

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AI vs. Human Workers: The $2 Trillion Productivity Revolution That's Changing Everything

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Why Healthcare Keeps Getting Pricier - and Three Reforms That Could Move the Needle

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Why Healthcare Keeps Getting Pricier - and Three Reforms That Could Move the Needle

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Rent Control 101: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and What the Data Actually Shows

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Rent Control 101: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and What the Data Actually Shows

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The Credit Card Debt Trap: How 22% Interest Rates Are Creating a New Poverty Class

The Credit Card Debt Trap: How 22% Interest Rates Are Creating a New Poverty Class

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The Data Harvesting Economy: How Your Personal Information Became a $200 Billion Industry

The Data Harvesting Economy: How Your Personal Informa...

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The AI Decision-Making Bias: How Algorithms Decide Who Gets Jobs, Loans, and Justice

The AI Decision-Making Bias: How Algorithms Decide Who...

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Money

The Credit Card Debt Trap: How 22% Interest Rates Are Creating a New Poverty Class

The Credit Card Debt Trap: How 22% Interest Rates Are C...

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Credit card interest rates have hit 22%+ while wages barely keep up with inflati...

What a $15-$20 Federal Minimum Wage Would Mean for Small Businesses and Prices

What a $15-$20 Federal Minimum Wage Would Mean for Smal...

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Before you support or oppose minimum wage increases, understand the real math be...

Rising Tariffs, Real Prices: How Import Taxes Raise Your Grocery and Gadget Bills

Rising Tariffs, Real Prices: How Import Taxes Raise You...

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Why trade wars aren't fought by countries - they're paid for by families at chec...

Student Debt vs. Down Payments: How Loans Delay Homeownership by 7+ Years

Student Debt vs. Down Payments: How Loans Delay Homeown...

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Why student loan payments are keeping an entire generation locked out of homeown...

The Hidden Tax: How 4-6% Inflation Cuts Your Take-Home Pay (Even With a Raise)

The Hidden Tax: How 4-6% Inflation Cuts Your Take-Home ...

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Discover why your paycheck buys less than it did two years ago - and what you ca...

Living

The Grocery Inflation Reality: Why Food Costs 30% More and Won't Come Down

The Grocery Inflation Reality: Why Food Costs 30% More ...

Prosperity Issue Aug 30, 2025 0 7

Food prices have risen 30%+ since 2020 and show no signs of returning to previou...

The Car Payment Trap: How $800 Monthly Payments Became Normal

The Car Payment Trap: How $800 Monthly Payments Became ...

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Average car payments have hit $800/month as loan terms stretch to 7+ years. Here...

Property Taxes Are Climbing: What It Means for Middle-Class Homeowners in 10 States

Property Taxes Are Climbing: What It Means for Middle-C...

Xo Parker Aug 28, 2025 0 8

Rising home values mean higher property taxes are crushing homeowners who though...

Why Housing Is Unaffordable in 2025: The Five Forces Squeezing Buyers and Renters

Why Housing Is Unaffordable in 2025: The Five Forces Sq...

Xo Parker Aug 28, 2025 0 9

Housing costs have exploded beyond what normal families can afford. Here are the...

Why Healthcare Keeps Getting Pricier - and Three Reforms That Could Move the Needle

Why Healthcare Keeps Getting Pricier - and Three Reform...

Xo Parker Aug 6, 2025 0 6

American healthcare costs twice what other countries pay for worse outcomes. Her...

Rent Control 101: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and What the Data Actually Shows

Rent Control 101: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and What the ...

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Rent control sounds like tenant protection, but the economics are complicated. H...

Work

The Gig Economy Lie: How 'Flexibility' Became Code for 'No Benefits'

The Gig Economy Lie: How 'Flexibility' Became Code for ...

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Companies are replacing employees with contractors to eliminate benefits and job...

Remote Work's Hidden Economic Impact: Why Your Local Coffee Shop Is Struggling

Remote Work's Hidden Economic Impact: Why Your Local Co...

Xo Parker Aug 28, 2025 0 5

Remote work seemed like a win-win, but it's quietly reshaping entire local econo...

The Rise of the Gig Economy: Why Full-Time Jobs Are Becoming Part-Time Puzzles

The Rise of the Gig Economy: Why Full-Time Jobs Are Bec...

Xo Parker Aug 28, 2025 0 6

Companies are replacing employees with contractors, and workers are cobbling tog...

From China to Mexico: How Supply-Chain Shifts Are Rewriting U.S. Manufacturing Jobs

From China to Mexico: How Supply-Chain Shifts Are Rewri...

Xo Parker Aug 28, 2025 0 9

The era of "Made in China" is shifting to "Made in Mexico" - and it's creating u...

The Skills Gap Crisis: Why Good Jobs Go Unfilled While Workers Stay Unemployed

The Skills Gap Crisis: Why Good Jobs Go Unfilled While ...

Xo Parker Jul 10, 2025 0 3

Millions of Americans want work while millions of jobs stay open. The skills mis...

AI & Society

The Data Harvesting Economy: How Your Personal Information Became a $200 Billion Industry

The Data Harvesting Economy: How Your Personal Informat...

Xo Parker Aug 28, 2025 0 6

Tech companies collect 2.5 quintillion bytes of personal data daily, creating a ...

The AI Decision-Making Bias: How Algorithms Decide Who Gets Jobs, Loans, and Justice

The AI Decision-Making Bias: How Algorithms Decide Who ...

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AI systems make millions of decisions about hiring, lending, and criminal justic...

The AI Monopoly Problem: Why Five Companies Control the Future of Intelligence

The AI Monopoly Problem: Why Five Companies Control the...

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Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, and OpenAI are building an oligopoly in artific...

The AI Investment Bubble: Why Tech Valuations Are Getting Scary

The AI Investment Bubble: Why Tech Valuations Are Getti...

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Trillions of dollars are flooding into AI companies with little revenue. Here's ...

AI vs. Human Workers: The $2 Trillion Productivity Revolution That's Changing Everything

AI vs. Human Workers: The $2 Trillion Productivity Revo...

Xo Parker Aug 12, 2025 0 4

Artificial intelligence is creating massive productivity gains while displacing ...

How AI Will Reshape the Job Market: Winners, Losers, and the Jobs That Don't Exist Yet

How AI Will Reshape the Job Market: Winners, Losers, an...

Xo Parker Jun 11, 2025 0 3

Artificial intelligence isn't just changing technology - it's about to reshape e...

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The Grocery Inflation Reality: Why Food Costs 30% More and Won't Come Down

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The AI Decision-Making Bias: How Algorithms Decide Who Gets Jobs, Loans, and Justice

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The Car Payment Trap: How $800 Monthly Payments Became Normal

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Average car payments have hit $800/month as loan terms stretch to 7+ years. Here...

The AI Monopoly Problem: Why Five Companies Control the Future of Intelligence

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Remote work seemed like a win-win, but it's quietly reshaping entire local econo...

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The Rise of the Gig Economy: Why Full-Time Jobs Are Becoming Part-Time Puzzles

The Rise of the Gig Economy: Why Full-Time Jobs Are Bec...

Xo Parker Aug 28, 2025 0 6

Companies are replacing employees with contractors, and workers are cobbling tog...

Work

From China to Mexico: How Supply-Chain Shifts Are Rewriting U.S. Manufacturing Jobs

From China to Mexico: How Supply-Chain Shifts Are Rewri...

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The era of "Made in China" is shifting to "Made in Mexico" - and it's creating u...

Property Taxes Are Climbing: What It Means for Middle-Class Homeowners in 10 States

Property Taxes Are Climbing: What It Means for Middle-C...

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Rising home values mean higher property taxes are crushing homeowners who though...