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3 things you can learn about taxes from NFL star Arik Armstead’s paycheck

Arik Armstead of the San Francisco 49ers at the NFC Championship game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Jan. 29, 2023. Kevin Sabitus | Getty Images Sport | Getty Images 1. Know where your dollars are going In the era of direct deposit and electronic records, it’s easy to let months …

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Fenway chairman confirms PGA Tour talks

Fenway Sports Group Chairman Tom Werner on Monday acknowledged that the company has held talks with the PGA Tour as the golf organization’s framework agreement with Saudi-backed LIV Golf faces new doubts. “We confirm that we’ve had conversations,” Werner told CNBC’s Scott Wapner during “Halftime Report.” He declined to comment …

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Medicare Part B premiums will go up in 2024. How to manage those costs

Peopleimages | Istock | Getty Images When to appeal your Medicare Part B premium You generally can’t have your Medicare Part B premiums adjusted – with one exception, according to Tim Steffen, director of advanced planning at financial services company Baird. “If something has materially changed in your situation … …

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Rising pay transparency is causing an employer information ‘arms race’

Commuters arrive from Metro North Railroad trains in Grand Central Station in New York. Timothy A. Clary | AFP | Getty Images Rising pay transparency is causing a new kind of competition among employers — and it’s not necessarily for talent. Instead, the shift in employers opting to share salaries …

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Across thousands of retailers, holiday shopping outlook is sluggish

A shopper in the seasonal aisle of a Target store on Black Friday in Chicago, Illinois, US, on Friday, Nov. 25, 2022. US retailers are bracing for a slower-than-normal Black Friday as high inflation and sagging consumer sentiment erode Americans demand for material goods. Photographer: Christopher Dilts/Bloomberg via Getty Images …

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Google set for second antitrust trial in two months as it faces Epic

Google CEO Sundar Pichai (L), and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. Reuters Google is headed back to court for its second antitrust trial in two months, this time in defense of its Android Play Store. While Google continues to argue against monopoly claims brought by the Department of Justice and …

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The No. 1 thing parents are ‘completely forgetting’ to teach their kids today, says parenting expert

As the founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools, I’ve spent decades working with parents and educating students from underserved communities. I am also a mom to three kids. Too often, I see parents putting so much energy into teaching their kids to act responsibly, clean their room, or …

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How Biden’s SBA is doing on getting loans to minority entrepreneurs

Maskot | Digitalvision | Getty Images The United States has experienced a small business boom in recent years, and people of color are a large part of that success, making progress on historical underrepresentation of Black and brown entrepreneurs in America.  From 2010 to 2020, the minority population grew from …

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A billboard ad I wrote ended up all over NYC—how much I got paid

In 2016, I was a very broke writer living in New York, mostly stitching together a living through side hustles. I freelanced for MTV News. I babysat rambunctious kids on the Upper East Side in Manhattan. I did catering at a private event space in the Tribeca neighborhood of the …

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66-year-old has worked at McDonald’s for 50 years—how he found his ‘forever job’

In the 1970s, the coolest job you could have was flipping burgers at McDonald’s.  At least according to Paul Hendel. He started working at the newly opened McDonald’s in Merrick, New York on the south shore of Long Island in 1973 when he was just 16 years old, excited to …

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