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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Virginia Governor’s Race Will Be the Latest Verdict in the Culture Wars</strong> - In the contest between Glenn Youngkin and Terry McAuliffe, the candidates are less important than the grassroots battles that have defined state politics. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/the-virginia-governors-race-will-be-the-latest-verdict-in-%20the-culture-wars">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Another Buffalo Is Possible</strong> - This summer, India Walton looked likely to become the first Black woman to lead Buffalo, and the first socialist mayor of any major American city in decades. Then the sitting Democratic mayor launched a campaign to defeat her. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/another-buffalo-is-possible">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Biden Can’t Quite Close the Deal—with His Own Party</strong> - “Everybody’s on board,” the President said. But they weren’t, at least not yet. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/biden-cant-quite-close-the-deal-with-his-own-%20party">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Would New York City Employees Rather Lose a Paycheck than Get Vaccinated?</strong> - Thousands of municipal workers have protested the mayor’s mandate, but the measure has largely worked. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-local-correspondents/would-new-york-city-employees-rather-lose-a-paycheck-%20than-get-vaccinated">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What Biden Can’t Do on Student Debt—and What He Won’t Do</strong> - Activists argue that the President could cancel student debt with the stroke of a pen, fulfilling a campaign promise. Newly uncovered documents suggest that Biden has been “reviewing” the issue for months. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-biden-cant-do-on-student-debt-and-what-he-wont-do">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The criminal complaint against Andrew Cuomo, briefly explained</strong> -
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Andrew Cuomo, who resigned governor of New York in August, speaks at a press briefing about Covid-19 earlier that month. | Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images
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The former New York governor was charged with forcible touching, a misdemeanor.
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More than two months after his <a href="https://voxmedia.stories.usechorus.com/compose/33c0111a-6f95-49b7-b5fe-f75b992c45d9">abrupt fall from power</a>, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is now <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/535745908/Cuomo-Criminal-
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Complaint">facing a criminal complaint</a> alleging he groped a former executive assistant in late 2020.
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Cuomo, who resigned from office in August amid a slew of misconduct allegations, was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/nyregion/cuomo-forcible-touching-complaint.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-
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share">charged on Thursday</a> by the Albany County Sheriff’s Office with forcible touching, a misdemeanor charge that carries a penalty of up to a year in jail.
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Former Cuomo aide Brittany Commisso has accused Cuomo of groping her while she was working with him at the Executive Mansion in Albany, and she <a href="https://www.wamc.org/wamc-news/2021-08-06/on-wamc-soares-confirms-police-report-has-been-filed-in-cuomo-groping-
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case">filed police report</a> in August, shortly after the release of a damning <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/investigation-sexual-harassment-cuomo/6e0c4e9f078d7e2a/full.pdf">report</a> by New York Attorney General Letitia James investigating misconduct claims against Cuomo.
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The report found that Cuomo <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/03/politics/cuomo-ag-report-fallout-key-
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points/index.html">sexually harassed 11 women</a>, including Commisso — but Commisso’s allegations are the first to result in criminal charges.
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According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/nyregion/cuomo-
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forcible-touching-complaint.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share">the New York Times</a>, the forcible touching charge brought against Cuomo is often used in circumstances where it’s difficult to prove that the assailant was acting purely for their own sexual gratification. The <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/535745908/Cuomo-Criminal-
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Complaint">charging documents</a> allege that Cuomo groped Commisso “for the purposes of degrading and gratifying his sexual desires.”
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Cuomo is set to appear in Albany City Court on November 17 to be <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/29/politics/andrew-cuomo-case-albany-county-sheriff-da/index.html">arraigned</a>.
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The misdemeanor charge comes after <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/investigation-sexual-
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harassment-cuomo/6e0c4e9f078d7e2a/full.pdf">an independent report</a> commissioned by James’s office was released in August, detailing multiple allegations of sexual harassment by Cuomo and a hostile work environment in which dissent was not tolerated and speaking up about alleged abuse could result in retaliation.
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Cuomo <a href="https://www.andrewcuomo.com/sites/default/files/files/documents/2021.10.20ResponsetoCommisso_0.pdf">has denied the allegations against him</a> and offered a number of justifications, including that what he considered friendly actions were simply <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/why-cuomo-s-dinosaur-defense-rang-
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hollow-n1276514">out of step with the political moment</a>. His attorney, Rita Glavin, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/crime-new-york-andrew-cuomo-albany-d5eaff22837a7189e685965bebb228b6">said in a statement on Friday</a> that Cuomo never assaulted anyone and claimed that the Albany County sheriff, Craig Apple, had acted with political intent.
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Cuomo-16572344.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-CP-Latest-News">Confusion</a> over the timing of the complaint gave Glavin some fuel; according to Apple, his office filed the complaint on Thursday morning, not expecting that it would result in a summons being issued the same day.
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As a result, the complaint became public on Thursday before Apple could notify Albany County District Attorney David Soares, who didn’t know about the complaint until it was leaked to <a href="https://www.nysfocus.com/2021/10/28/charges-filed-against-andrew-cuomo-for-criminal-touching/">New York Focus</a>.
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Soares said in a <a href="https://www.nysfocus.com/2021/10/28/charges-filed-against-
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andrew-cuomo-for-criminal-touching/">statement</a> that he was “surprised to learn today that a criminal complaint was filed in Albany City Court by the Albany County Sheriff’s Office against Andrew Cuomo.” Soares’s office has been pursuing its own investigation into the sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo.
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According to the <a href="https://www.timesunion.com/state/article/Criminal-summons-Cuomo-16572344.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-CP-Latest-
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News">Albany Times-Union</a>, a summons wasn’t expected until next week, after the sheriff’s office had conferred with Soares and Commisso about moving forward with the case. Commisso’s attorney, Brian Premo, said that she too “was surprised by the turn of events but she has been and will remain a resolute cooperating victim in pursuit of blind justice.”
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Apple told the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/andrew-cuomos-criminal-summons-
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released-faster-than-expected-sheriff-says-11635542298">Wall Street Journal</a> that his office routinely files such paperwork without consulting with prosecutors first, and a spokesperson for the New York state court system, Lucian Chalfen, defended Albany City Court Judge Holly Trexler, saying she “handled the filing of the misdemeanor complaint properly.”
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Cuomo has repeatedly been accused of harassment and misconduct
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In addition to allegations against Cuomo by Commisso and 10 other women, <a href="https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/investigation-sexual-harassment-cuomo/6e0c4e9f078d7e2a/full.pdf">the August report</a> painted an alarming picture of pervasive sexual harassment and retaliation by Cuomo and his aides.
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It detailed accusations ranging from Cuomo asking for help finding a girlfriend and saying that he, in his early 60s, would date a woman as young as 22, to unwanted physical contact, like the kind Commisso described when she <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2021/10/28/misdemeanor-complaint-filed-against-cuomo-
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over-forcible-touching-1392121">came forward publicly</a> in August.
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The report was effectively the final straw for an already-embattled Cuomo, who was by August facing <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/nyregion/andrew-cuomo-book-investigation.html">multiple</a> <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/cuomo-investigations-possible-impeachment.html">distinct scandals</a>, including allegations that his administration had <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/04/nyregion/cuomo-nursing-
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home-deaths.html">deliberately covered up</a> the number of nursing home residents who died of Covid-19 during the pandemic. <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/majority-of-new-yorkers-say-gov-andrew-cuomo-shouldnt-run-
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again-11625131801">His public support plummeted</a>, and top aide <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/08/politics/new-
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york-governor-cuomo-aide-melissa-derosa-resigns/index.html">Melissa DeRosa</a> resigned after the attorney general’s report showed that she had participated in retaliation against at least one accuser.
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Sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo began surfacing last year after former aide <a href="https://www.vox.com/22174452/andrew-cuomo-lindsey-boylan-sexual-harassment">Lindsay Boylan</a> accused Cuomo of sexually harassing her “for years” and of retaliating against her by <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/cuomo-accuser-
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lindsey-boylan-file-lawsuit-embattled-governor/story?id=79288632">releasing confidential personnel</a> files; <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/7/22318003/more-women-accuse-new-york-gov-andrew-cuomo-sexual-harassment">additional accusations</a> earlier this year added momentum to <a href="https://www.vox.com/2021/3/13/22328860/andrew-cuomo-resign-
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democrats">calls for Cuomo to resign</a>.
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Ultimately, Cuomo, facing an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/09/nyregion/andrew-cuomo.html">accelerating impeachment push</a> backed by state Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and the chamber’s Democratic majority, announced he was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/andrew-cuomo-resigns-17161f546bb83c32a337036ecf8d2a34">stepping down</a> just one week after the attorney general’s report was released on August 3.
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Despite Cuomo’s resignation, Heastie said in August that the Assembly would <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/cuomo-impeachment.html">continue investigating</a> both the sexual harassment accusations and allegations that the Cuomo administration had deliberately lied about the number of nursing home deaths in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Thursday’s criminal complaint is just the latest development in Cuomo’s rapid downfall, and it underscores that the allegations that ended his governorship could still become actionable claims, with real legal teeth.
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Cuomo still claims he’s the victim of a political witch hunt
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As with previous sexual misconduct allegations, Cuomo’s attorney, Glavin, has argued that the allegations in Thursday’s criminal complaint are false and politically motivated.
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“Governor Cuomo has never assaulted anyone, and Sheriff Apple’s motives here are patently improper. Sheriff Apple didn’t even tell the district attorney what he was doing,” <a href="https://twitter.com/ZachReports/status/1453844757835288576?s=20">Glavin said in a statement</a>. “This is not professional law enforcement; this is politics.”
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Specifically, Cuomo’s team has <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewcuomo/status/1454126827572797443?s=20">seized on the initial confusion</a> surrounding the charging announcement, which coincided closely with the announcement of James’s gubernatorial campaign, as evidence of political maneuvering on her part and an “<a href="https://twitter.com/andrewcuomo/status/1454519659680698374?s=20">abuse of power</a>” by Apple in his “rouge [sic] investigation.”
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James <a href="https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-new-york-andrew-cuomo-kathy-
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hochul-15e1fc7cc5ef518503ca561d2fd8034f">announced her gubernatorial campaign</a> on Friday, just one day after the criminal complaint against Cuomo was filed. She will challenge sitting New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, the former lieutenant governor who took over from Cuomo following his resignation, in the Democratic primary, and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/nyregion/jumaane-williams-public-advocate-governor.html">other candidates</a> may jump into the Democratic race as well.
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James and Cuomo had <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-is-letitia-james-former-andrew-cuomo-ally-could-help-take-him-
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down-11628102625">previously been allies</a>; he endorsed her during her successful 2018 run for attorney general. More recently, however, <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2021/10/29/she-took-on-cuomo-trump-
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and-the-nra-now-tish-james-wants-to-be-governor-1392133">Cuomo and his team</a> have begun to spin James’s probe into the sexual harassment allegations against Cuomo as an abuse of power in pursuit of the governor’s mansion.
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Cuomo has <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewcuomo/status/1454519659680698374">tweeted repeatedly</a> in the days since the complaint was made public, with statements by Glavin and Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi both claiming there is no evidence to support the criminal charges.
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But <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/nyregion/andrew-cuomo.html">multiple district attorney’s offices</a> in New York, as well as <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2021/10/29/albany-sheriff-promises-
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overwhelming-amount-of-evidence-against-cuomo-1392135">state Assembly,</a> have been collecting evidence against Cuomo, and Apple has repeatedly said that the mistimed filing of the complaint doesn’t have any bearing on the seriousness of the charges or the strength of the case. Apple <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/579224-sheriff-says-he-
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<em>Welcome to </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/personal-finance/2019/8/20/20813748/money-debt-personal-finance"><em>Money Talks</em></a><em>, a series in which we interview people about their relationship with money, their relationship with each other, and how those relationships inform one another.</em>
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<a href="https://www.benniecovington.com/">Bennie Covington</a> and <a href="https://www.krystalcovington.com/">Krystal Covington</a> live in Denver, Colorado with their toddler son. Bennie is 38 years old and works as an HR leader; Krystal is 36 and runs her own public relations business.
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Between their two jobs and their recently purchased rental property, Bennie and Krystal have a combined annual income in the low six figures — and their savvy financial decisions during the past 18 months not only allowed them to earn back the money they lost during the beginning of the pandemic, but also helped them prepare for whatever the future might bring.
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<strong>Krystal: </strong>At the beginning of 2020, my son was just about to turn 1 year old. I was getting my energy back, my business was going really well, I was really excited for the possibilities — and 60 percent of my income at the time was running live events. My last event was on March 11, 2020. The day after that, they started shutting everything down.
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<strong>Bennie:</strong> I’m a C-level executive, and we were in the midst of our best quarter as a company. Record quarter. We went from there to having sub-record quarters for the next 18 months. It was an amazing roller coaster.
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<strong>Krystal:</strong> I had to shut down, basically.
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<strong>Bennie:</strong> She had an events-based business, so that changed the whole dynamic. My business involves a lot of traveling to a lot of court systems and municipalities. So we understood that we were about to hit a revenue wall with our organization.
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Krystal and I were walking around the neighborhood, enjoying our newfound free time, and I said, “It would be interesting to know where we are at the end of this. Are we better off, or are we worse off?” We remembered 2008 very well, and some people came out in a better position — but a lot of people came out in a not-better position.
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In 2008, we were just starting out. We had nothing but hopes, dreams, and student loan debt. We’re much more established now, so we were able to not only absorb some of the hits but also be opportunistic. During the pandemic, we bought our first rental property. A dip in the market, for us, represented an opportunity to buy.
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<strong>Krystal:</strong> We decided to be more strategic [than in 2008]. We wanted to create some hedging for ourselves, to hedge against what could happen in the future, and also take advantage of the fact that we were seeing a lot of people flocking to new homes. That’s why we decided a rental home would be a good investment.
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Now we have the second income from the rental, and the property has gained in perceived value — I know that stuff isn’t real, it’s just on paper, but it’s still value.
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<strong>Bennie:</strong> We did the same thing with stocks. In 2008, when we saw the market dip, I remembered thinking that buying would be the smart move — unless the world was about to end, in which case we’d have bigger problems. This time around, we went in and we kind of went shopping for companies we thought would remain healthy during the pandemic. We took savings and purchased equities and also bought the rental property.
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<strong>Krystal:</strong> We have a mortgage on the rental property. The savings went to stocks and the down payment.
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<strong>Bennie:</strong> I also still had my job — I took a 20 percent pay cut, but it was still good income. The pay cut ended up translating into about $25,000. The rental property yields about $440 a month, so it pays for the mortgage and helps to cover the salary gap. Whatever we lost, we gained in equity and income.
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<strong>Krystal:</strong> With my business, I got an <a href="https://www.vox.com/2020/4/3/21196191/cares-
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act-apply-small-business-loans-grants-ppp-eidl">SBA loan</a> that helped me buy some time to figure things out. I found a different business model strategy to try — I went from event planning to marketing services — and figured out different ways to utilize other people’s labor. So far it’s been working okay, but I’m going to continue tweaking and evolving!
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All of this has been an ongoing, unique learning cycle — but I was also able to replace my income, and I actually make more now.
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<strong>Bennie:</strong> It’s incredible when you think about it. When you go back to 2008, we weren’t in the position to take advantage of anything. Now we can, and it’s mindboggling — the world is completely different, depending on where you are.
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<strong>Krystal:</strong> In 2008, we were in debt.
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<strong>Bennie:</strong> In 2008, we were at the mercy of the market. Whatever it wanted to give to us, we didn’t really have a lot of negotiating power. A lot of dreams deferred — and that maybe actually led us to getting to this point, because we never really lost that. I don’t like the concept of “work harder,” but we certainly thought “we need to do better.” We need a plan to absorb these shocks.
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But the juxtaposition of these two realities — the way things changed for us in 12, 13 years — it’s been very interesting.
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<strong>Krystal:</strong> In 2008, I don’t think we understood the concept of ownership. Between that, and the period when my husband lost his job and our savings<em> </em>saved us —
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<strong>Bennie:</strong> We weren’t investing in the market then, it was just in savings accounts —
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<strong>Krystal:</strong> We started living on very little and saving one income. That’s what allowed us to move to Colorado and buy our first condo. We saw the market was about to get to the point where people couldn’t even buy a house, so —
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<strong>Bennie:</strong> We sold it and bought another house!
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<strong>Krystal:</strong> We realized ownership was extremely valuable, especially in a market that was growing. Then, in this situation, we realized the people who were doing really well were the people who had ownership. It made sense that people who own property, people who have income sources that aren’t tied to employers, are doing okay.
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<strong>Bennie:</strong> We’re in this position right now because of the time between 2008 and 2020. We recognized that we weren’t in the position to absorb dips, so we decided to become proactive. When the pandemic came out of nowhere — and these things always do — we were in a position to look for opportunities. But we wouldn’t have been if we hadn’t spent the period between 2008 and 2020 getting ready.
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<strong>Krystal:</strong> We also used that time to educate ourselves. We watch all of the things about <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2020/3/18/21182018/financial-independence-retire-early-fire-early-retirement-mr-
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money-mustache-pete-adeney">FIRE</a>, we read all of the stories, we share with each other, “Oh, these people make about as much as we make and this is what they do with their money, that’s interesting,” and we talk through it. We read books together, we try to listen to the same books on Audible, because hearing the information and talking through it — “What do you see in this philosophy?” — helps us understand that there are different pathways.
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We also both worked in the financial industry for a few years. I was in communications and he was in training/development. Being adjacent to all of that helped us too — being around all of these people who had a lot of money and were talking about it.
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<strong>Bennie:</strong> In 2008 there was a narrative and there was data. We followed the data. How did people end up financially stronger at the end of the recession? We weren’t looking at the 1 percent, we were looking at the upper-middle class. Nobody was talking about them, but I was intrigued — what happened there? What allowed them to do that? That was what was in my head when 2020 happened.
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Moderate Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have demanded major cuts to Democrats’ Build Back Better bill, a large climate and social spending package that’s been in the works for months. Progressives fear further cuts — and some worry the bill might be abandoned altogether — if Manchin and Sinema can’t be compelled to accept the $1.75 trillion spending proposal currently on offer.
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Their strategy to pin the senators down was on display Thursday, when the Congressional Progressive Caucus refused to move forward on a bipartisan infrastructure bill without a simultaneous vote on Democrats’ larger social spending bill. Because House Democrats have a narrow three-person margin, any major defections can sink legislation.
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Progressive members have for weeks demanded that the votes on the two bills be held together. They worry that Manchin and Sinema — who back the infrastructure package — could completely abandon the budget bill should infrastructure advance on its own, given their longstanding opposition to the size of the measure and to several of the policies it contains.
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The best way to guarantee that Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin support the President’s framework is for the Build Back Better Act to pass in the Senate first.<br/><br/>The people — not just some, but ALL of our people — must win.
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— Cori Bush (<span class="citation" data-cites="CoriBush">@CoriBush</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1453893447669145623?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2021</a>
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To ensure the two senators support the spending package, progressives are using the bipartisan bill as leverage: In order to pass one, Democrats need to get on board with passing the other as well. Tying the two votes together is also a way to prevent moderate lawmakers from whittling down the spending bill even further. The sooner moderates agree to the latest spending proposal numbers, the sooner they’ll get their vote on infrastructure.
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“Congress needs to finish the job and bring both bills to a vote together,” the Congressional Progressive Caucus wrote in a statement explaining their stance. “There is too much at stake for working families and our communities to settle for something that can be later misunderstood, amended, or abandoned altogether.”
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Progressive pressure on Thursday secured an infrastructure vote delay, which marked a win for them. It also followed a loss: The latest version of the spending bill, which progressives have announced they’d accept, includes some serious cuts. The plan, released by the White House Thursday, doesn’t include many of their key priorities, including paid family leave and Medicare’s ability to negotiate prescription drug prices.
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Despite this, they appear to have now decided to take what they can. They want Manchin and Sinema to do the same and hope to use what leverage they have into making sure they do so.
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Progressives called for the infrastructure vote delay for two reasons: They wanted specifics about the text of the social spending legislation, and they wanted direct assurances from Manchin and Sinema that they’d vote to pass the social spending bill.
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A core issue at play is a lack of trust: Because of how many cuts Manchin and Sinema have already demanded to key Democratic priorities (including reducing prescription drug prices, increases to the corporate tax rate, and eliminating the Clean Energy Performance Program), progressives are wary of their support for the Biden framework. Additionally, neither senator has publicly said they support the framework. That has progressives concerned since Democrats have approved a budget resolution framework before only to have the legislation itself stall.
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“I don’t owe them my trust, and they don’t owe me theirs,” <a href="https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1454070795563683844">Rep. Cori Bush (D-MO) said in an MSNBC interview</a>. “Let us see the vote. … That’s how we know where you stand.”
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Progressives’ concerns weren’t assuaged after the release of President Joe Biden’s $1.75 trillion framework for the legislation. While the CPC publicly endorsed the measure in principle, both Manchin and Sinema issued positive statements about negotiations without any concrete commitments.
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“As we work through the text of the legislation, I would hope all of us will continue to deal in good faith and do what is right for the future of the American people,” <a href="https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1453858737039581184">Manchin said in a statement</a>.
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“I look forward to getting this done, expanding economic opportunities and helping everyday families get ahead,” <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorSinema/status/1453749851246714885">Sinema said in a separate statement. </a>
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I’ve lost count of how many interactions with reporters that Sen. Manchin has had today. His unwillingness to just come out and say he supports a WH framework - that was negotiated more directly with him than probably any other lawmaker - seems notable.
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Progressives want a guarantee that all Democratic senators are actually on board with this bill, and that Manchin or Sinema won’t blow up the framework. They’ve already seen this process play out once: Democrats in both the House and the Senate passed a $3.5 trillion budget resolution, but both moderates balked at moving forward with that price tag and many of its components.
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“We need to have certainty, either through legislative text, through … agreements … that we can trust,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told reporters Thursday.
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The caucus’s demand for legislative text has led to results. In an effort to convince progressives to consider a vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill, the House Rules Committee released <a href="https://www.eenews.net/articles/democrats-release-text-of-budget-reconciliation-package/">1,700 pages</a> of tentative text on Thursday. That text didn’t wind up being enough for a vote because, as with the framework, Manchin and Sinema have yet to agree to it.
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Jayapal noted Thursday that progressives would support adding policies back into the legislation that were stripped out of Biden’s framework, like paid family leave and Medicare expansion provisions. She said, however, that progressive support for the framework was not contingent on these additions and that they stood behind the endorsement they’ve made.
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Thursday marked the second time progressives successfully blocked a vote on infrastructure over concerns about the spending bill. This time, they faced increased pressure from congressional leaders to reverse their position, in order to send Biden off to his coming G20 climate meetings with a legislative win to tout.
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Originally, progressives had identified five broad areas where they wanted investments: the care economy, affordable housing, climate jobs, a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients, and reductions to prescription drug prices. The original $3.5 trillion version of the spending bill included many of these issues, but because of Manchin’s and Sinema’s concerns, multiple areas were significantly cut back or dropped entirely.
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Biden’s new $1.75 trillion framework ultimately invests heavily in early childhood education and climate but does not include a major provision to help reduce prescription drug prices, a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients, or paid family leave.
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And areas that survived cuts still saw dramatic reductions in spending. For example, Democrats’ original budget measure contained $450 billion for long-term home care and $332 billion for affordable housing. Biden’s framework, meanwhile, includes $150 billion for the former and $150 billion for the latter.
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Sinema has opposed enabling Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, likely killing it. A pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients also isn’t expected to make it into the legislation because of the rules governing the budget reconciliation process and the Senate parliamentarian’s existing ruling advising against its inclusion. And paid family leave has run into opposition from Manchin, who’s worried that the policy would be too burdensome for businesses.
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Biden’s framework still has about $100 billion allocated for immigration reform, though it’s unclear whether it will make it past this procedural hurdle. Democrats’ latest pitch to the parliamentarian will focus on issues like the legal visa backlog and a shield from deportation for some unauthorized immigrants, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/28/us/politics/biden-immigration.html">New York Times reports</a>. Lawmakers are also still finagling some of the details for the bill, leaving the door open for the possible return of some policies.
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Progressives back the framework even with the existing omissions. In its current state, it includes several of their demands on child care subsidies, funding for clean energy tax credits, and a Civilian Climate Corps. Additionally, they argue that the talks on the bill wouldn’t have even happened without the pressure they’ve put on Democratic leadership and moderate lawmakers.
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“The reality is that while talks around the infrastructure bill lasted months in the Senate, there has only been serious discussion around the specifics of the larger Build Back Better Act in recent weeks, thanks to the Progressive Caucus holding the line and putting both parts of the agenda back on the table,” the CPC said.
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Although they are standing their ground on legislation timing, they appear willing to accept the policy concessions that have already been made. “We wanted a $3.5 trillion package, but we understand the reality of the situation,” said Jayapal.
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>T20 World Cup | Afghanistan post 160-5 against Namibia</strong> - Playing the last match of his international career, former skipper Asghar Afghan made a 23-ball 31</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>T20 World Cup | England eye semifinal spot, Sri Lanka look for survival</strong> - Pre-tournament favourites England have played as per the expectations in their first three games, steamrolling their opponents, including arch-rivals Australia on the night of October 30</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>10 sportspersons from PSUs recommended for National Sports awards</strong> - Hockey coach Sandeep Sangwan has been recommended for Dronacharya Award</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>T20 World Cup | Guptill fit for India game</strong> - Guptill was hit on his left foot during his side’s defeat against Pakistan</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kerala State Electricity Board can meet power requirements for SilverLine project, says KSEB chairman</strong> - After the KSEB disclosed power requirement estimations for the ₹63,941-crore project following talks with the K-Rail, B. Ashok said the Kerala State power utility deems the project a business opportunity</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Up to France to end fishing row, says UK government</strong> - Boris Johnson tells Emmanuel Macron to “de-escalate the rhetoric” around the post-Brexit issues.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>This is the world’s oldest image of a ghost</strong> - The Babylonian tablet may have come from an ancient exorcist’s library. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1809040">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Lidar reveals hundreds of long-lost Maya and Olmec ceremonial centers</strong> - The sites suggest cultural links between the two Mesoamerican civilizations. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1808992">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Spiders are much smarter than you think</strong> - Researchers are discovering surprising capabilities among a group of itsy-bitsy arachnids. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1808930">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Microsoft reclaims title of most valuable public company after Apple falls</strong> - iPhone maker cedes top spot to its tech rival after weak earnings. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1809064">link</a></p></li>
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“What’s that?” asks her mother. “That babies come out of the same place where boys put their penises?” said her daughter. “Yes it is dear” replies her mother, pleased that the subject had finally come up and that she wouldn’t have to explain it to her daughter. “But then, when I have a baby,” responded the teenager, “won’t it knock my teeth out?”
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