Month: December 2024

There was once a time that Amanda Maze, a home health nurse and mother from Kentucky, took out loans to pay for her family’s Christmas presents — a decision she said caused a “vicious cycle” of year-round payments and debt. Now, she’s teaching her half-million TikTok followers that the holidays really can be priceless, or…

EUobserver takes a deep dive into the workings and new chairs of every single European Parliament committee for the new 2024-2029 session, in a series of articles first published in our print magazine of October 2024 After four years as Belgian finance minister, Johan van Overtveldt, a member of the conservative New Flemish Alliance, was…

Managing finances on a fixed income can be a balancing act, especially for recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI). In 2025, SSI payments will follow a unique schedule that includes months with double payments and others with no payments at all. Understanding these changes is essential for maintaining financial stability throughout the year. The irregular…

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The Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building is home to the Office of Management and Budget in … [+] the Executive Office of the President. (Photo by �� Brooks Kraft/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) Corbis via Getty Images As Washington prepares for the incoming president and Congress to take office, the budget has emerged as a…

Every year, school boards around the country buckle down and spend months finalizing their district budgets. Lately, those conversations in Oregon have become messy, painful and long, as schools face the challenging financial realities brought on by declining enrollment, increasing costs and the end of additional federal dollars. Backpacks hang outside a classroom in Woodlawn…

For five months, the President has not signed into law the Bill 9559-d supposed by the parliament which aims to expand the powers of local self-government bodies in supporting Ukraine’s security and defense sector. However, considering the prolonged discussions (the bill was voted only nine months after its registration), the question of whether this step…

Quick Take: Facing millions in budget shortfalls, Pajaro Valley and Live Oak school districts expect to make deep spending cuts as pandemic-relief funding expires and they confront the effects of declining enrollment. For PVUSD, that is likely to mean slashing expenses for mental health staff and programs. Selene Avila’s six-year-old daughter struggled to make friends…

Kiki Turner, administrator of Denver’s People’s Budget program (left), and City Council member Jamie Torres unveil one of the initiatives that will be funded by the 2025 People’s Budget, which had $1 million to distribute to locally selected projects. Dec. 18, 2024. Kevin J. Beaty/Denverte In the last few years, Denver officials have tried to…

A trio of independent agencies funded by the Yukon government say civil servants are mucking about with the agencies’ budgets. The heads of all three offices have written to the Legislative Assembly’s members’ services board (MSB) to complain. Annette King, the territory’s child and youth advocate, said the involvement of the finance department’s management board in…