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Understanding the Financial Burden on Young Adults Many young adults live at home to save money for themselves, but a significant percentage also do so to help their parents financially. According to the Federal Reserve's survey on the financial well-being of American households, 33% of adults aged 22-24 and 42% of those aged 25-29 live at home to…

Search for Missing Civilian Submersible in North Atlantic Officials are in a race against time to find a civilian submersible that went missing on Sunday in the North Atlantic while voyaging to the wreckage of the Titanic. The 21-foot vessel has four days of emergency capability, and crews with the US and Canadian coast guards are scouring the…

BYD's Stance on the US EV Market Chinese electric vehicle (EV) giant BYD believes that the USA's Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is preventing the sale of cheap electric cars in the United States. BYD's Stella Li claims that the US isn’t “under our current consideration” due to the Act, although it is worth noting that this didn't prevent BYD from…

Digital Intake Initiative: A New Approach to Tax Filing Efficiency for IRS The Enterprise Digitalization Office at the IRS is focused on strategic objective 1.2: the digitalization initiative. One of the projects under this initiative is the digital intake initiative, which aims to modernize the way paper tax returns are processed by…