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Love Earth as Yourself.
The rhymes, the times, the mimes. Panama!
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 AM
subsidies to expire.

“Without the overtime, my goodness, there’s no way I can live off of $13.53 an hour,” Engram said. “I’m barely doing it now.
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
pay my bills without it,” Engram said. Her husband is disabled and unable to work. She gets health insurance through a subsidized plan on the Affordable Care Act marketplace. In October, she started requesting 90-day prescriptions, expecting that they will become unaffordable if Congress allows the
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 AM
she makes $13.53 per hour. Thanks to overtime protections, she usually earns around $20.30 for every hour above 40 each week.

“I basically live off my overtime pay,” she said. But if she’s classified as a companion rather than a worker, she could lose it.

“I wouldn’t be able to eat without it,
December 7, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Engram works more than 60 hours per week caring for an elderly client who hires her directly. For doing “everything” for the woman she cares for, Engram said — grocery shopping, housekeeping, helping her get dressed, coordinating doctor visits and showing up at night if something is wrong —
December 7, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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Anyone who would trust anything called “Trump account” needs a brain MRI.
December 5, 2025 at 6:13 AM
My idea of heaven.
December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM