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Rant #001  Today is going to be a Rant! This is number one and the Swear words will fly! Warning the Explicit language is strong in this one!   Janet wants to talk about the whole PUA thing with money going to unemployment and housing and food and all was supposed to end in September. Then all of the sudden states began announcing that it was ending in July but that wasn’t good enough! Like here in Arizona they said July 10th but in actuality ended it on May 10th. So she is all WTF is going on with the Government?! So they said screw you little guy. Governor Ducey is responsible says Patrick and Janet says let’s not talk about Governor Douchebag.

As of this point 25 states have dropped out of the Federal Unemployment Benefits Program. Which has ended the support that thousands upon thousands of families have depended on nationwide. And the Government won’t intervene, even if they could. Janet says “slow Joe” wouldn’t do it if he could, others call him President Biden. They change back to the subject.

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Host, Rob Lorei, gets political insights from guests Yvette Lewis, President, Hillsborough County NAACP; William March, Independent Political Correspondent; Josh Solomon, St. Petersburg City Hall Reporter, Tampa Bay Times; Dan Ruth, Professor, Honors College USF-Tampa.

This week, we discuss: 

• Peaceful protests and a divide in Tampa over the police review commission mark the anniversary of George Floyd’s killing.
• Governor Ron DeSantis moves to end extra unemployment benefits.
• The St. Petersburg mayoral race is getting crowded.
• Dominoes fall as Congressman Charlie Crist runs for governor. 

To learn more about Florida This Week, visit www.wedu.org/floridathisweek

In this episode, host Bidemi Ologunde presents the case of a 42-year-old Nigerian politician who was recently arrested in New York for his involvement in a $350,000 unemployment benefits fraud scheme that affected several American citizens and residents in at least 12 states.

Please send questions, comments, and suggestions to bidemi@thebidpicture.com. You can also get in touch on LinkedIn, Twitter, the Clubhouse app (@bid), and the Wisdom app (@bidemi).

Have the unemployment numbers for women during the pandemic been as dire as the media claims? Should we be creating more work-from-home jobs for women, or giving more choices to women about the type of work they can pursue?

On a new "Right Now with Stephen Kent," Stephen sits down with Elizabeth Nolan Brown and Kat Murti, the founders of Feminists for Liberty, for a discussion about libertarian feminism, parenting and motherhood, providing options to women about their lives and work environments, and why not all definitions of feminism are the same. Make sure to subscribe to Rightly and find out more details about the episode below.

---- Content of This Episode ----
00:00​​​​​ Episode Start
00:51 Welcome, Kat Murti & Elizabeth Nolan Brown
01:51 The she-cession narrative
11:25 Libertarian Feminism defined
25:32 An uptick in traditionalism
30:58 What is a woman?
36:10 Sweatshop labor is empowering?
42:03 Positively

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The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness (IZA Institute of Labor Economics) http://ftp.iza.org/dp4200.pdf

Women Are Quitting: How We Can Curb The ‘She-Cession’ And Support Working Women (Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/margiewarrell/2021/01/06/does-a-she-cession-loom-how-to-better-support-women-through-this-pandemic/?sh=4aac76523ece

'The State Has Been One of the Largest Perpetrators of Gender Inequality and Violence': Podcast (Reason)
https://reason.com/podcast/2018/02/02/kat-murti-feminists-for-liberty-podcast/

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It's a guest-less episode 49! Johnny and Andrew back each other up on practical "jokes", being direct with criticism, what the world would be like if it were a bunch of Johnny Beehners, and showing some gratitude to the government for once. 

Undocumented and formerly incarcerated Americans have been left out of federal pandemic relief payments. New York is home to about half a million undocumented residents, many of whom are essential workers. One year in, they’re going on a hunger strike. 

On Tuesday, March 16th protestors gathered at St. John The Divine in Manhattan on the first day of the "Fast for the Forgotten''. Demonstrators are calling for government relief for New Yorkers passed over by federal pandemic relief. Jessica Fu published a story for The Counter after visiting the strike and speaking with participants and organizers. In this episode, she and HRN’s Hannah Fordin discuss the strike, its implications, and what New York State is doing to support these excluded workers. 

To read Jessica Fu’s coverage of the strike for The Counter, click here. 

Additional Links / Bibliography:

Make The Road NY

Fund Excluded Workers

Street Vendor Project

An Economic Profile of Immigrants in New York City 2017

“How Long Can You Go Without Food?” Hunger Strikes 101 from Slate

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This project is funded in part by a Humanities New York CARES Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal CARES Act. 

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The COVID-19 pandemic caused an enormous wave of disruption to the U.S. economy, leading the unemployment rate to rise to a record high of 14.7% in April 2020.

While unemployment has since improved — the unemployment rate in January 2021 was 6.3% — America has yet to reach the employment levels it held before the pandemic.

In response to so many out of work, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act in March 2020 expanded eligibility for unemployment benefits. Within that legislative package, the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) increased the amount of money people could receive through such programs.

FPUC expired for the first time in July 2020, leading to insurance beneficiaries receiving smaller benefits.

Employment and job security is a known social determinant of health and the relationship to suddenly losing a job and a person's health isn't yet widely understood. To study the how FPUC may have affected unmet health-related social needs, Seth Berkowitz from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Sanjay Basu from Harvard Medical School examined these needs and mental health among unemployment insurance beneficiaries before and after the initial expiration of FPUC.

Published in the March 2021 edition of Health Affairs, Berkowitz and Basu's research found that the initial FPUC expiration was associated with a 10-percentage-point increase in risk for self-reported missed housing payments. In addition, risk for food insufficiency as well as depression and anxiety symptoms increased among households receiving unemployment insurance benefits.

Seth Berkowitz joins Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil on A Health Podyssey to discuss his research, the potential health impact of unemployment insurance, the changing nature of work in the U.S., and how direct payments programs — such as universal basic income — could compliment social safety nets.

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Hello and welcome to our last podcast episode of the year. As if dealing with the Coronavirus in 2020 wasn’t crazy enough, the government is taking government funding authorizations down to the wire this year. As I’m recording this on Monday, December 28, the president has signed the monstrous 5,593 page, 2021 Appropriations Act. This Act includes authorization and details of the second round of Coronavirus stimulus checks and federal unemployment assistance, as well as a number of other changes.  
Expect to see more information on all this in the coming days and weeks. To roll everything up, remember if you got a stimulus check in the first round, you should get another soon, $600 for each eligible person. If didn’t receive a check, but your income is lower this year than last, and below the phaseout threshholds, you will receive the stimulus benefits as a tax credit on your 2020 tax return. Unemployment benefits have been extended another 11 weeks, and for that time will include an extra $300 federal benefit, and will begin in the first week of unemployment. We talked about two changes to tax deductions. Itemizers can now deduct medical expense over 7.5% of AGI. The 90% of people who do not itemize can receive an above the line deduction for up to $300 per return for 2020. This was extended to 2021 and joint filers will be able to deduct $600 in 2021. If you claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit or Additional Child Tax Credit last year, but will have less earned income for 2020, you can use your 2019 income to calculate your 2020 credit. This should prevent you from losing out on those credits when you file your taxes this spring. If you have a Flexible Savings Account with funds left over at the end of the year, check with HR to see if they will be authorizing participants to rollover those funds to use next year.

I know his has been an earful of talk about taxes, but the just signed government funding authorization does have something in it for just about everyone. I hope you have found this useful. I you have any questions, reach out to me at katie@moneypilotadvisor.com. And I especially want to wish you a Happy New Year and good riddance to 2020.

Two out of 3 adults say that money is a significant source of stress in their life this year.  And more than half say they have experienced a negative financial impact from the pandemic. How about you? How are you doing? In today’s podcast we’ll talk about reassessing your financial life. We’ll - 

Reassess Your Situation

·        lost job

·        pay cut

·        kids still schooling from home

·        rent troubles

Reassess Your Priorities

·        what is, what isn’t

·        first food and shelter, health and life insurance

·        then longer-term

·        info overload, focus on your top three

Reassess Your Budget

·        listen to our last podcast, Episode #16 That B$%&@!

·        Use apps like Mint or YNAB

·        Continue paying off debt, especially mortgage 

Reassess Your Resources

·        Emergency Fund

·        unemployment benefits

·        Medicaid

·        food stamps, food pantries

·        Army Emergency Relief, Navy and Marine Corps relief Society, Air Force aid Society

·        relatives

·        line of credit (HELOC) versus credit cards

Back to Your Priorities, mental health

·        family

·        caring for others, charity

 For more information check out our website: https://www.moneypilotadvisor.com/

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Today, Richard Oring and Jag break down the CARES Act - the Coronavirus Aid  Relief and Economic Security Act - and what it means for you.  We cover:

• Recovery Rebate Checks for Taxpayers
• Retirement Plan Withdrawals
• Retirement Plan Loans
• Required Minimum Distributions (RMD's)
• Changes to Charitable Donations
• Unemployment Benefits

Resources:

IRS Publication 972

Email Richard: ROring@ncfg.com

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Call Richard: 609-924-2049 x126