During the holiday season, postal workers move over approximately 15 billion pieces of mail and packages and handle more than 400 million packages every single week. Take a moment to send a note of thanks to postal workers this holiday season to let them know how much you appreciate their hard work and public service.
Climate change is driving more severe and frequent disasters and higher recovery costs. Home insurers have responded by jacking up rates and retreating from markets rather than working with households and communities to bolster resilience and lower the risk. This tactic reduces the insurance industry’s exposure and protects its profits, but families nationwide are finding it much harder to find or afford home insurance.
Russell Vought’s latest salvo in his ongoing attack on the CFPB aims to close its doors for good by starving the bureau of funding by the end of 2025.
If you aren’t a part of the cryptoverse, you may have missed the unprecedented crypto crash that wiped out billions in investor value in a single weekend this month.
In early January 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a medical debt rule that would have helped 15 million people in the United States with unjustly lowered credit scores due to medical debt.
The crypto industry has continued its legislative onslaught as the Senate begins considering giving a federal seal of approval to crypto trading.