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My aunt gifted me $55K after I gave birth, but I can’t tell anyone about the money. How do I spend it wisely?

Paulo and Natalia are in their 20s and just welcomed their first baby. Between student loans, modest paychecks,…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Personalfinance #Business #carpayments #DaveRamsey #EducationDataInitiative #investmentportfolio #Natalia #NationalAssociationofRealtors #PersonalFinance #Studentloans
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/359996/

Breaking: The U.S. just discovered that architects, teachers and nurses are actually… hobbyists. Under Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill”, designing bridges, educating entire generations and literally keeping people alive will be treated like you’re starting a quirky side hustle on Etsy. “Professional students” (like, say, MBAs and lawyers) can borrow up to $50k/year, while the folks who build hospitals, run them, and staff them get the “congrats on your expensive pastime, here’s a smaller loan” tier at $20.5k/year.Architecture: not professional. Education: not professional. Nursing, physical therapy, dental hygiene, occupational therapy, social work: also just vibes now. Professional, apparently, means “makes the right donors comfortable” and not “holds society together so the donors don’t die of untreated sepsis in a collapsing building staffed by underfunded volunteers”.If this goes through, fewer people will be able to afford these degrees, which is a bold strategy when there’s already a nursing shortage and a desperate need for teachers and care workers. But hey, who needs a functioning society when you can have tidy loan categories and a press release about “repayment assistance”.Anyway, if you’re an architect, teacher, nurse, therapist, engineer or social worker: congratulations on your new status as “non-professional essential worker”. Please remember to clock out before saving lives or shaping the next generation, because that kind of thing is clearly just a hobby now.#HigherEd #StudentLoans #Architecture #Nursing #Teachers #ProfessionalDegrees #USPolitics #TrumpBill #DebtCrisis #MastoEdu #MastoPol #Fediverse

https://mymodernmet.com/professional-degrees-loans-archictecture-education/

What’s in Trump’s big bill? Trillions in tax cuts, changes to Medicaid and more

By KEVIN FREKING and LISA MASCARO
Updated 8:21 PM EDT, May 13, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — "#Republicans in Congress are moving with rapid speed to advance President Donald Trump’s big bill of #TaxBreaks, #SpendingCuts and beefed-up border security funding as leaders work to enact many of his campaign promises.

"House committees have been laboring for months to draft the legislation, which Republicans have labeled 'THE ONE, BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL,' a nod to Trump himself. Speaker Mike Johnson is pushing to approve the package and send it to the Senate by Memorial Day.

"Democrats say they will fight what House party leader #HakeemJeffries calls 'this extreme and toxic bill.' "
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tax-cuts-bill-medicaid-work-requirements-17cbde167f3b434e925a199c3253b8e1

#BigUglyBill #Environment #Ethics #StudentLoans #Medicaid #TaxBreaksForTheRich
#CorporatePolluters #AirIsLife
#WaterIsLife #LandIsLife
#MAGADeathCult #TrumpHatesTheEnvironment
#TrumpHatesThePoor
#AntiLife #Greenpeace
#Indivisible #FreePalestine
#CREW #PeaceAndJustice
#Corporatocracy #CharacteristicsOfFascism
#SilencingDissent
#USPol #HR9495 #StopHR9495
#TaxPackage #Authoritarianism
#AuthoritarianRule
#FightForTheFuture
#Section112209

🎓 Apparently, the New York Fed has discovered that a #diploma might not be the golden ticket we thought it was. 📉 Fear not, though—they're still busy stabilizing the #economy and supervising banks, so even if you're drowning in student loans, at least someone has a steady job. 🙃
https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/04/when-college-might-not-be-worth-it/ #NewYorkFed #studentLoans #jobStability #HackerNews #ngated