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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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 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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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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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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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 — 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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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.
Voter suppression in America is not a conspiracy theory — it is a documented, data-rich consequence of two Supreme Court decisions that dismantled the core protections of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Since the 2013 Shelby County v. Holder ruling…
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Big Beautiful Bill 2.0 is a second Republican budget reconciliation package that House Speaker Mike Johnson announced at the party’s Doral, Florida retreat in early March 2026 — just eight months after the first Big Beautiful Bill was signed into…
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