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personal finance

The Dave App Promises Low-Cost Cash Advances—What's the Catch?
The app lets you borrow up to $100, but it's definitely not free money.
Caitlin Flynn
6.9.21
minimum wage

Trump’s Favorite Economist Just Said Minorities ‘Aren't Worth $15 an Hour’
Art Laffer is the brains behind “trickle down” economics.
Paul Blest
6.9.21
BLM

This Country Is Finally Teaching Students About Its Ugly Colonial History
“We’re not just using words like ‘equality’, ‘diversity’, ‘inclusion’. Warm, fluffy words that nobody would disagree with. We’re talking about racism.”
Alasdair Lane
6.9.21
Drugs

Illegal Cannabis Farms Are Making the Climate Crisis Worse
Every kilo of weed grown in UK illegal cannabis farms produces the same carbon emissions as a return flight from London to New York.
Clara Murray
6.9.21
Tech news

El Salvador Just Made Bitcoin Legal Tender, A World First
El Salvadorians can pay taxes in Bitcoin, and any economic agent that is able to must accept Bitcoin as money.
Jordan Pearson
6.9.21
London

26 Reasons Why Living in London Sucks
The UK capital just came in at number 60 on the world's "most liveable cities". Here's why.
VICE Staff
6.9.21
Social Media

Let’s Talk About the CIA and Its Twitter Account
Woke ads and weak tweets: America's intelligence agency is rebranding.
Ben Makuch
6.9.21
Arizona audit

The Arizona Audit Is America’s Hottest Tourist Destination for Trump Fans
GOP lawmakers and officials from at least seven states have now visited the audit, and are promising to replicate it in their own states.
David Gilbert
6.9.21
GAMES

'Palworld' Asks: What If Pikachu Worked in an AR-15 Factory?
Assault rifles, cages of crying penguins, and factories of cute monsters was what Pokémon always needed.
Matthew Gault
6.9.21
electric cars

For Used Electric Vehicle Buyers, Battery Health Is Everything. And There's No Way To Know It
The battery is the most important part of an electric vehicle, but there's currently no way for used car buyers to find the battery's state of health.
Aaron Gordon
6.9.21
News

The Residential School System Didn’t End—It Just Became Foster Care
“‘Social worker’ are two of the most horrifying words in the English language for Indigenous people.”
Anya Zoledziowski
6.9.21
Hate Crime

Here's How Pakistanis Reacted to the Hate Crime that Killed a Family in Canada
Some shared loving memories of the family murdered in the Islamophobic attack, others raised Pakistan’s own record of hate crimes.
Pallavi Pundir
6.9.21
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