- BusinessMarketWatch
This man became financially independent at 36 and says the key to happiness is ‘owning your own time’
The 39-year-old landlord, who was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, reached $1 million Canadian dollars, or approximately US$791,000, in 2019, though he felt he had reached financial independence even sooner. The former network administrator and his partner, Catherine, who is a Ph.D. student and research coordinator, save between 50% and 80% of their income every year and live off of $27,000 in annual expenses. With his financial independence, they’re able to travel with their dog, Pepper, but he still works as an IT consultant while managing the rental properties and other side hustles.
- U.S.The Week
Andrew Yang's nonprofit used metric that disadvantaged applicants from historically Black colleges, records show
While New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang was still running things at Venture for America, the nonprofit he founded, he "failed to recruit many participants of color," The New York Times reports. While the Times investigation doesn't reveal specific demographic breakdowns of acceptance rates for the program, which trains recent graduates and young professionals to work at startups in cities across the United States, it did shed a light on some of the built-in challenges in the application process. Ivy League graduates had a leg up thanks to a system that gave applicants a score based on their alma mater. At the same, "internal records show the rubric ended up classifying virtually all the country's historically Black colleges in the lowest tier" even if they ranked higher than other colleges and universities in the annual rankings released by U.S. News and World Report, the Times reports. After Yang left in 2017, former employees told the Times, Venture for America dumped the metric. Read more at The New York Times. More stories from theweek.com5 brutally funny cartoons about Giuliani's legal woesWhat the Elon Musk backlash is really aboutU.S. launches airstrike in response to failed Taliban rocket attack on day formal withdrawal begins
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- EntertainmentEntertainment Tonight Videos
VideoHilaria and Alec Baldwin Welcome Baby No. 6 Five Months After Welcoming Baby No. 5
Hilaria and Alec Baldwin have welcomed baby no. 6. The couple share five other children together, including their five-month-old son, Eduardo, who was born in September.
- LifestyleHuffPost
I’m An Autistic Sex Worker, And Here’s Why It Works For Me
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- PoliticsThe Telegraph
Most powerful man you've never heard of: Meet the boat-dwelling, gun-toting Democrat with the future of America in his hands
The fate of Joe Biden’s massive spending plans, and the future of America, may be decided on an innocuous looking houseboat several miles away from the US Capitol. It belongs to Joe Manchin, the Democrat senator from West Virginia, who has emerged as the key vote needed to secure the passage through Congress of Mr Biden's multi-trillion dollar proposals. The Senate is divided 50-50 between Democrats and Republicans, with Vice President Kamala Harris holding a casting vote. Republicans are unified in their opposition. So it all hangs on Mr Manchin, the most conservative Democrat senator. He is now widely referred to as "the second most powerful 'Joe' in Washington". Mr Manchin is known for his fiscal prudence, and he is having serious doubts. After hearing Mr Biden's speech to Congress on Wednesday, during which he took copious notes, he said: "It’s a lot of money. A LOT of money. That makes you very uncomfortable." Mr Manchin is an outlier in the Democratic Party, and in Washington. He dislikes the capital city so much that in his decade there he has refused to buy or rent a home.






