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Washington, D.C. nonprofit research organization analyzing economic and social policy, including health coverage, taxes, housing and household finances.
Proposed Basel III changes would replace the mortgage servicing asset deduction with a flat 250% risk weight, American Banker reports. Servicing-heavy nonbank lenders could find a bank charter more attractive, but approval takes years and is not guaranteed.
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Transportation Department would give communities with high marriage and fertility rates a 10% transit funding boost, Vox reports. Vox's writer argues the criteria could cost the transit-reliant families they appear to favor.
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Self-funded employer plans added 1.1 million members in the year to June as the ACA individual market shrank 17.2 percent, Mark Farrah Associates data show. That growth meets Marsh's projection of an 8.2 percent rise in 2027 benefit costs, the largest since 2003.
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Fifty-two percent of Gen Z investors moved money meant for investing into sports betting in the past year, a Betterment survey of 1,000 investors found. Bank of America's payment data puts what every generation recovers from sportsbooks each month below 75 cents on the dollar, so the diverted cash is a running cost.
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The federal seed pays only when a guardian opens the account, so the employers now matching it have budgeted a per-child cost whose real size depends on how many of their own workers file the paperwork.
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Business Insider's reporting reads as family finance, but the hours and the six-figure bills come out of mid-career and late-career payrolls, and no employer in the account carries a line for it.
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