New U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requirements have been put in place to increase the amount of workplace injury reporting. The new regulations came from one of OSHA’s top attorneys and the former Assistant Secretary of Labor. The requirements will significantly increase the amount of injury and illness data that…
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Student Debt Payments are Delaying Would-Be Homebuyers, Survey Finds
A new survey from the National Association of Realtors and the SALT Program of American Student Assistance finds that a large majority of young people with student debt feel prohibited from buying a house because of the burden of loan repayments. The two groups polled 3,000 people making on-time payments for student loans about their…
Solar Canopies Will Allow Cities to Go Solar
New solar panel technology called “solar canopies” shines light on the growing need for cities to convert to clean energy and provides a more effective way for them to do it, too. In major cities, the 25% recycled content in a metal roof simply isn’t enough on its own to help the environment. Large rooftops…
Conservative Watch-Dog Group Calls Out Florida Representative Over Alleged Credentials
U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy is being called out by a conservative political group for what they say are blatant lies on his resume and experience credentials. According to the Tampa Bay Times, the Better Florida Alliance has said Murphy should “resign in disgrace immediately” after reports recently surfaced that he may have been less than…
New FHA Guidelines Will Make it Easier For Millennials With School Loan Debt to Buy a Home
There’s never been a more costly time to be a student. Currently, the Millennial generation carries a staggering $1.2 trillion in debt. Naturally, this makes other processes quite difficult post-grad — particularly buying a home for the first time. This has caused a palpable delay for the Millennial generation when it comes to real estate…
Drop in Unemployment Rate Incredibly Misleading as U.S. Sees Decrease in Labor Force
The United States unemployment rate dropped to 4.7% last month, reaching its lowest point since 2007. Yet although this sounds like a huge step in the right direction, it is actually just the opposite. Unemployment is decreasing for all the wrong reasons. The declining unemployment rate is incredibly misleading. According to CNN Money, disheartened Americans…
Billionaire Real Estate Investor Forms Super PAC to Endorse Donald Trump
More than one-third of all real estate investors make more than $75,000 a year. But for Thomas Barrack Jr., that is only a small percentage of what he is worth. Barrack is a billionaire private real estate investor who has recently raised $32 million dollars in order to form a super Political Action Committee (PAC)…
A Father Finally Finds His Son After Three Years, Hopes to Have Him Come Home
A mother, along with her then nine-year-old son, fled from Ireland in 2013. But after the boy’s mother died earlier this May, his father is now hoping to regain custody. John Hopkins, a 40-year-old father, has not seen his son in three years. The Tennessean reports that after marrying his wife Jackie in Las Vegas…
America’s First Muslim Clothing Store Challenges Stereotypes
A typical American woman has 30 outfits in her closet for different uses and events, whereas in 1930 women had just nine outfits each. Yet when it comes to dressing for the occasion, a young entrepreneur is working to challenge the stereotypical beliefs on what is appropriate for women to wear. Lisa Vogl has opened…
Florida Judge Rules SEO Case Can Go Forward: Google Forced to Appear in Court
In a somewhat unprecedented turn of events, a federal judge in Florida has decided that Google will be required to defend themselves in court in a lawsuit stemming from de-listing hundreds of websites from one particular company. According to TheStack.com, E-Ventures Worldwide, a company that does search engine optimization (SEO), is suing Google after the…