The February 21 debut of Truth Social, President Trump’s long-promised social media app following his ban from Facebook and Twitter and departure from the White House, is noteworthy for a number of reasons, not the least of which is its lofty ambition. Truth Social, the high-profile product of a new Trump-owned tech company listed in …
It’s that time of year again. Social media is flooded with memes and funny posts from people religiously checking their bank account to see when their tax refund finally shows up. And results in either a funny post about how they feel as wealthy as a royal now. Or they seethe in anger, either because …
The IRS says that, at the moment, it’s diligently working its way through a huge backlog of tax returns that have stacked up as a result of challenges associated with the Covid pandemic. The good news, though, is that the tax agency is already sending money out the door. And that, so far, early filers …
The now-defunct child tax credit expansion is back in the news this week, thanks to AOC saying the expiration of the monthly checks is at least partly responsible for a rise in crime. And that she’s so disgusted with the “s–tshow” of Congress that she thinks about quitting politics “all the time.” Such comments, however, …
As we’ve said for a while now, stimulus checks this year are going to increasingly be a product of luck — with that luck mostly a function of where you live in the US. California, for example, is getting ready to potentially re-up its Golden State Stimulus program. And over on the other side of …
“A life-changing initiative.” That’s how South LA Councilman Curren Price, who led the creation of the city’s Basic Income Guaranteed: Los Angeles Economic Assistance Pilot (BIG LEAP) program, described this nearly $40 million basic income effort. It’s the biggest such program in the country, and it officially got underway last month — at a time …
Unsurprisingly, Americans have gotten pretty acclimated over the last couple of years to the free money they’ve gotten from the federal government. And, increasingly, from state governments that have started sending out their own stimulus checks and payments, now that those have dried up at the federal level. There will be ramifications of all this, …
The Biden White House marked Tuesday, February 8, as a “day of action” to remind Americans to sign up for two huge tax credits when preparing their federal tax return this year. One is the expanded child tax credit, with the second half of that coming via this year’s tax return. The other? The Earned …
Twenty-one days. That’s generally how long you’ll need to wait if you’ve filed your federal income tax return for tax year 2021 and are now asking, “Where’s my refund?” “Generally,” though, is the all-important caveat here. All things being equal, that’s roughly how long it should take, according to the tax agency — from the …
Stimulus checks may have dried up at the federal level, but ambitious basic income projects underway now in at least 17 states aim to, if nothing else, at least fill the gap for people most in need. People like low-income mothers in such New York City neighborhoods as Washington Heights and Harlem, where they’ve started …
