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Month: April 2021

Biden’s stimulus delivered a bigger tax cut to lower-income Americans than the 2017 GOP reform, report shows

While President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats are readying their plan to hike incomes taxes on the wealthy, a new government report shows that their $1.9 trillion relief package slashed taxes for lower- and moderate-income Americans for this year. Taxpayers earning less than $75,000 annually will pay no tax, on average, in 2021, thanks to

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A Texas hospital system will require employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine and could fire them if they don’t comply

A hospital system in Houston is requiring all of its employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19, making it one of the first major hospital systems in the US to mandate vaccination among employees and move to fire them if they don’t comply. Houston Methodist, a network of eight hospitals that has 26,000 employees, said it

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A beginner’s guide to crypto lingo

Investing in cryptocurrencies requires an appetite for risk and a whole new vocabulary. Here’s a beginner’s guide to the fundamentals of crypto lingo. Bitcoin Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency created in 2009 by an unknown person (or people) using the alias Satoshi Nakamoto. Unlike traditional currencies such as the US dollar, bitcoin isn’t controlled by a

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