In one of his first actions as president, newly sworn President Joe Biden will ask the Education Department to extend the student loan forbearance to Sept. 30, 2021. This extension replaces the previous Jan. 31 expiration date for student loan forbearance enacted by Former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. The original [...]
The holidays are here, which means you’re already getting holiday catalogs in the mail and seeing holiday sale commercials on TV. It’s tempting to pull out that department store credit card to make the magic happen at the holidays, but is the debt worth it? Reckon video producer Kavolshaia Howze talked to Callie Jowers, a certified [...]
Young people are bearing the weight of the financial crisis caused by COVID-19 and will continue to suffer from the financial fallout for years to come, recent reports suggest. People between the age of 15 and 25 are 2.5 times more likely to have become unemployed due to the pandemic [...]
If you’ve been following the Money Talks series, you know it addressed some of the ways wealth is unequally distribution in America. Now, we want to share some advice from financial experts about how to build your wealth. Buy life insurance outside of your job Millions of Americans lost their [...]
Mississippi voters chose to create a medical marijuana program. Now that the initiative has received the voters’ seal of approval, what happens next? The now-approved Initiative 65 outlines the conditions for which marijuana can be prescribed as a treatment, sets possession limits, tax rates and establishes the Mississippi Department of Public Health [...]
During the first walkthrough of their new home, Eddie and Katie Burkhalter looked around at piles of garbage, drug paraphernalia and graffiti-scrawled walls noting the previous tenants’ drug of choice. Calling the house, which the Burkhalters bought with $8,000 cash, a fixer-upper would be an understatement. But with some work and a lot of saving, they turned [...]
Mississippi voted on Tuesday to create a medical marijuana program, becoming the 35th state in America to legalize marijuana for medical use. Now that one of the reddest states in the nation gave the OK to to medical MJ, what does that mean for the rest of the South? This [...]
The women’s wealth gap is not the same as the women’s wage gap, but it may be a better measure of the financial health of women in America. You’ve likely heard of the women’s wage gap. Women are paid 82 cents for every $1 a white man is paid. Women [...]
Millennial participation in politics is growing. The Millennial Action Project, which tracks millennial participation in politics, estimates from 2018 to 2020, there has been a 266% increase in millennials running for office. The group reports that there are 236 candidates under the age of 45 running for Congress in 2020. [...]
Mississippi voters face two choices to legalize medical marijuana for certain patients this November. Officially, these measures — both of which will appear on ballots — are called Initiative 65 and Alternative 65A. How medical marijuana ended up on Mississippi’s ballot Just 26 states have the option of allowing ballot [...]
