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Property Tax Assessments Are Spiking: How Proposition 13 Built a Generational Tax Wealth Transfer on the Backs of Millennials
You got your 2026 property tax bill and nearly fell out of your chair. The assessment went up 10–15%. Your neighbor—a 72-year-old who’s lived in the house since 1985—pays half what you do for an identical home on the same…
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SAVE Plan Collapsed: 7 Million Borrowers Face 90-Day Deadline — and Payments Could Triple
The SAVE plan is dead. On March 27, 2026, the Education Department began sending notices to 7.1 million student loan borrowers: you have 90 days to choose a new repayment plan or lose your $143/month payment and switch to something…
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The Rent Algorithm: How RealPage Helped 31,700 Landlords Coordinate Rent Increases on 16 Million Apartments
A Texas software company called RealPage built a rent-pricing algorithm used by 31,700 landlords across the United States. Property managers fed their private lease data into the system. The system fed competitor data back out. Landlords followed its recommendations 90%…
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Section 8 Housing Voucher Waitlist: Why 10 Million Eligible Families Are Left Behind
The Section 8 housing voucher waitlist is so long that most eligible families will never reach the top — and in dozens of cities, the list has been closed for a decade or more. Only 1 in 4 households eligible…
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Reverse Mortgages: How Banks Are Draining Boomer Home Equity — and Leaving Nothing for Their Kids
Reverse mortgages let homeowners 62 and older convert home equity into cash — but nearly 100,000 of these loans have ended in foreclosure, according to a USA TODAY investigation of 1.3 million loan records. A reverse mortgage can be a…
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The Junk Fee Economy: How Corporations Engineered a $90 Billion Hidden Tax on American Consumers
Junk fees — the hidden, mandatory, and often inescapable charges tacked onto the advertised price of nearly everything Americans buy — cost U.S. consumers an estimated $90 billion every year on concert tickets, hotel rooms, and food delivery apps alone,…
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Living Paycheck to Paycheck in America: How 67% of the Workforce Got Trapped — and Who Built the Cage
Between 62% and 67% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck in 2025, depending on who’s counting and how — and the share has risen consistently for the past three years. Even with different methodologies, every credible survey points to…
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Why Is Car Insurance So Expensive? The $169 Billion Profit Hiding Inside Your Premium
Car insurance in America is now 55% more expensive than it was in 2020 — and the steepest increases came between 2022 and 2024, when premiums rose at the fastest pace in half a century. The average full-coverage policy costs…
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Stock Buybacks Were Illegal Until 1982. Now They’re Draining $942 Billion a Year From the Economy.
Stock buybacks — when corporations repurchase their own shares on the open market — were classified as illegal stock market manipulation by the SEC for most of the 20th century. The Reagan administration legalized them in 1982 via SEC Rule…
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The PBM Racket: How CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth Extracted $116 Billion From Your Prescriptions
Pharmacy benefit managers — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — extract an estimated $116 billion annually from U.S. drug supply chains through spread pricing, retroactive clawbacks, and vertical integration. The FTC called it 'deeply troubling.' Here's how the scheme works and why Congress won't fix it.
