Human Interest

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4 Ways To Crush The Debt

That’s Been Crushing You

Debt continues to be a crushing burden for many Americans. From credit cards to auto loans, mortgages, student loans and medical bills, a high percentage of the nation’s households have one or more of those types of debt.

According to a NerdWallet debt analysis in 2017, the average American household carrying credit card debt owed a balance of $15,654. The average balance for a household with auto loans was $27,669; it was $46,597 for a student loan; and $173,995 for the average remaining on a mortgage.

4 Ways You Can Help Your Child 
Deal With Stress

Adults often complain they are “stressed out.” Increasingly, statistics show, American children are stressed out as well, and the effects on their health, emotional state, and cognitive ability can be significant.

Save the Date

Black Political Power Means Zilch

Hillary Denied!! No Globalist in the White House Since Herbert Hoover!
 
By Harold Pease Ph. D

The 2016 presidential election was the greatest political revolution in a century leaving no globalist-supported president occupying the White House since Herbert Hoover.  But the mostly “secret combination” is poised to return.

Alaskan Energy Development: Pro Consumer, Pro Taxpayer, Pro Prosperity
By Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

President Trump's tax reform included a bonus for consumers, taxpayers, and Alaska: opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to energy development. Such action reverses a four-decade, Carter-to-Obama animus against developing what the federal government has estimated could be one of the largest oil fields in U.S. history.

Time to Rethink the Renewable Fuel Standard
By Merrill Matthews

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt thinks U.S. refiners are forced to blend too much ethanol into their gasoline.

If ever a federal program has outlived its usefulness, it’s the government’s support for ethanol.

In 2005, Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, creating the Renewable Fuel Standard. The RFS requires nearly all gasoline to be mixed with ethanol, which is mostly corn-based and increasingly includes other biofuels.

Minute Summary

by Rix Quinn

     Today's readers owe much to an unassuming old guy who roamed the country telling short stories that will live forever.

     What can we learn from Aesop?

     Around 600 B.C. this Greek slave began to chronicle fables from around the civilized world. He became so famous his master freed him, and he traveled many places to share stories with both kings and commoners.

Dear Dave,

I bring home $4,100 a month in military disability pay and Social Security combined. My wife brings home an additional $2,000 each month. Should we base our emergency fund level on her income only, since mine is guaranteed? 

Lewis

Dear Lewis,