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What to do if you’re broke and unemployed?getty Being broke and unemployed is undoubtedly one of the most stressful financial situations one can face, with the pressure to make ends meet —buying food, paying rent, or keeping the lights on —seemingly impossible. Nonetheless, there are steps you can take to regain control. This article offers practical strategies to help reduce expenses, access assistance, and quickly generate income. By taking swift action, you can ease financial pressure and work toward long-term stability. Even in difficult times, small, focused efforts can make a significant difference in securing your financial future. 1. Assess…

By Dave DeCamp The US says it was informed of the Israeli plans ahead of the invasion. The Israeli military announced early Tuesday morning that its ground invasion of Lebanon has started, confirming earlier reports that Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were operating on the ground inside Lebanon. The IDF said its troops are conducting “limited, localized, and targeted ground raids” against Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon as Israeli airstrikes continue across the country. The ground raid comes after a week of heavy Israeli airstrikes that have killed over 1,000 people, including many civilians. While the Biden administration has claimed…

The Pennsylvania Department of State’s voter registration site will be down for maintenance beginning Saturday, October 5, originally overlapping former President Donald Trump’s triumphant return to Butler, Pennsylvania, nearly three months after the first assassination attempt on his life. However, it seems officials may have moved the time after criticism. Conservative activist Scott Presler is among those who pointed to this bizarre reality. “The @PAStateDept voter registration website will be unavailable on Saturday, October 5th, the day that President Trump will be triumphantly returning to the site of the assassination attempt in Butler County, PA,” he observed. “W/ all eyes…

South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun said at a congressional event on Tuesday that he believed it “highly likely” communist North Korea sent soldiers to fight in the Russian invasion of Ukraine – and similarly probable it has suffered numerous “casualties.” Kim was speaking at an audit session, the Korea JoongAng Daily reported on Tuesday, and assessing how close the military ties between Moscow and Pyongyang have become. “We assess that the occurrence of casualties among North Korean officers and soldiers in Ukraine is highly likely, considering various circumstances,” Kim stated. The possibility of North Korean troops invading Ukraine at all,…

October Surprise: The September Jobs Report Is Flattered by BLS Adjustments Surprise, surprise. September’s jobs report shows a 254,000 increase in employment, and once again, it appears the real action is in the footnotes, specifically the magic of seasonal adjustments. Every year, the government statisticians at the Bureau of Labor Statistics have the unenviable task of smoothing out the labor market’s wild swings, especially in September, where history tells us the private sector nearly always loses jobs before those adjustments work their magic. Let’s cut to the chase: since the turn of the century, the private sector has shed jobs…

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are tied in blue Nevada, according to the latest Napolitan News Service survey, conducted by RMG Research. The survey asked respondents, “If the presidential election were held today, would you vote for Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump?” With leaners included, the two are tied with 49 percent support each. Only two percent said they would not vote if those were the choices. When leaners are excluded, Harris leads Trump by two percentage points — 49 percent to 47 percent. Even so, that is well within the survey’s +/- 3.5…

She blames greedy companies for price-gouging. He blames the Biden administration’s economic policies.Kamala Harris and Donald Trump agree on one thing: Tapping into sour consumer sentiment about high grocery prices is one way to court voters.Bacon prices have been a particular focus for Trump. He mentioned them in his Sept. 10 debate with Harris and again a week later during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”“Things are not going, right now, very well for the consumer,” Trump said during the interview. “Bacon is up five times.”Trump’s math is wrong, but bacon has seen some sizzling price increases. According to…

PAIMADO, Colombia (AP) — Sediment and pebbles are all that’s left on the earth around much of Bernardino Mosquera’s small riverside community in northwest Colombia’s Choco region.Just a year ago, healthy shrubs and trees filled this important biodiversity spot teeming with species native to the land. But then illegal miners arrived, using their heavy machinery to dredge the riverbeds for gold.“It’s just desert here,” said Mosquera. “Illegal mining affects the ecosystem in every way … it leads to degraded land. There are no trees. The water sources are drying up, it’s polluted by mercury.”Mosquera is a river guardian, a title…

Speaker Mike Johnson is demanding Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “immediately” fire the country’s ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova, over what he called a “shortsighted and intentionally political” visit to a Pennsylvania weapons factory that only included Democrats. “Support for ending Russia’s war against Ukraine continues to be bipartisan, but our relationship is unnecessarily tested and needlessly tarnished when the candidates at the top of the Republican presidential ticket are targeted in the media by officials in your government,” Johnson wrote in a letter on Wednesday. Johnson further alleged the visit to Scranton, Pennsylvania, purposefully failed to include any Republican…

Donald Trump says he’s open to talks with Iran on a new version of the landmark nuclear agreement he scrapped as president. Trump, speaking to reporters Thursday in New York City, didn’t go into detail about what he, if reelected, would seek in any agreement but said that talks are necessary because of the threat posed by Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons. “Sure, I would do that,” the former president said when asked if he would make a deal with Iran. “We have to make a deal, because the consequences are impossible. We have to make a deal.” His remarks,…