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COLA 2025 Boost: Maximize Your Social Security Payments to $5,180 Monthly – Here’s How!

COLA 2025 Boost: Maximize Your Social Security Payments to $5,180 Monthly – Here’s How!

COLA 2025 Boost Social Security Payments to $5,180 Monthly Social Security is a lifeline for millions of Americans, providing financial stability in retirement. With the Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) increasing benefits by 2.5% in 2025 , retirees have a unique opportunity to maximize their monthly payments. The maximum benefit could reach $5,180 per month for individuals who plan strategically. This article will guide you through practical steps to optimize your benefits , leveraging the 2025 COLA and beyond. COLA 2025 Boost $5,180 Monthly

Topic Details COLA Increase for 2025 A 2.5% boost to Social Security payments starting January 2025. Maximum […]

US Universal Basic Income Proposal 2024, Who Qualifies for it and How it works?

US Universal Basic Income Proposal 2024, Who Qualifies for it and How it works?

US Universal Basic Income Proposal 2024 US Universal Basic Income Proposal 2024: In 2024, the concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) is gaining momentum as a potential solution to combat poverty and ensure financial stability for all Americans. UBI offers unconditional, regular payments to individuals, helping to cover basic needs like housing, food, and utilities. This idea has been tested in several U.S. cities and states and has sparked nationwide debates.

In this article, we’ll explore how UBI works, who qualifies, and what it could mean for the future of the economy. Whether you’re a curious reader, policymaker, or professional, […]

Magic of a universal basic income

Magic of a universal basic income

With universality, we are no longer divided into two camps of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’. – ADIB RAWI YAHYA / THESUNpix HEALTHCARE , education and social infrastructure are usually universal benefits that we all automatically benefit from.

However, it is rather strange that in our society there is resistance to the idea of providing a basic income to all citizens universally.

Targeted benefits are the opposite of this. While it seems perfectly sensible to target very limited resources only to those that need them most, these tend to be unpopular policies.Rooted in a mindset of scarcity, they sow suspicion, breed one-upmanship and […]

Cabinet approves Social Protection policy

Cabinet approves Social Protection policy

Cabinet has approved the long-awaited Social Protection Policy after the Health Ministry announced its completion earlier this year.

The new development, announced late last week, highlights a renewed focus on providing financial assistance and strengthening social safety nets in the territory.

According to the Cabinet release, the policy aims to “improve governance, progressively expand coverage through effective design, efficient service delivery, and adequate financing of social protection, and strengthen the resilience and adaptability of core social protection functions”.This comprehensive approach ensures more equitable support for the most vulnerable in the BVI.The Cabinet decision, made on September 18, also authorised the Health […]

Impacts of 4IR on employment

Impacts of 4IR on employment

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Nov 18, 2024 15:58Updated :Nov 18, 2024 15:58 People the world over have kept their fingers crossed about the consequences and impacts of the Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR). Machine intelligence has suddenly pulled off spectacular successes in businesses, customer service, office works, decision making, application of medical science and health care, research and data analysis, solution of complex problems through automation. But this process of widespread automation has also been subjected to closer scrutiny by none other than the experts in the art, including Geoffrey Hinton, known as "the godfather of AI" who resigned […]

How AI is Quietly Reshaping Your Career Path

How AI is Quietly Reshaping Your Career Path

Navigating AI-driven job market changes Generative AI, led by tools like ChatGPT, is subtly but profoundly transforming the job market. This technological shift is reshaping the employment landscape, presenting both challenges and opportunities as AI automates tasks traditionally performed by humans. Consequently, job demands and skill requirements are evolving across a wide spectrum of industries, compelling professionals to adapt and upskill. The AI Grid explains more about what you can expect in the near future and how you can prepare yourself.

Imagine waking up to discover that the skills you’ve spent years, or even decades, mastering are no longer as […]

Wealth Distribution Poor no Priority for Govt’s

Wealth Distribution Poor no Priority for Govt’s

By Dhurjati Mukherjee

Prof. Meghnad Desai, the well-known economist has made an insightful observation that economics as a subject lost its concern for the poor somewhere along the way in his recent book titled‘The Poverty of Political Economy: How Economists Abandoned The Poor’. It has been pointed out that the Smithian concern for the greater good was lost long back during David Ricardo’s works where the value of a good was determined by production and not by exchange. It was during this time that economics started losing its concern for the poor.

Desai referred to a Cambridge economist, Prof. Arthur C. […]

These Rare $2 Bills Are Worth $20000, Check Your Wallet For A Hidden Treasure

These Rare $2 Bills Are Worth $20000, Check Your Wallet For A Hidden Treasure

Many people think of $2 bills as just ordinary money, but some of them could be worth much more than their face value. In fact, certain rare $2 bills have been sold for as much as $20,000. In fact, some $2 bills can sell for as much as $20,000 because of their unique features. These rare bills are highly sought after by collectors who are willing to pay thousands of dollars for them.

If you have a $2 bill tucked away in a drawer or wallet, it’s worth taking a closer look. The value of a bill can depend on […]

China Shift to “Smart Manufacturing” Faces Challenges Amid Labor Shortage

China Shift to “Smart Manufacturing” Faces Challenges Amid Labor Shortage

In a factory on the upper floor of Zhongwei’s plant in Suzhou, a team of engineers works around a rotating machine, striving to keep up with the next generation of manufacturing equipment in China. Their task is part of a broader effort to solve one of the most pressing issues facing China’s 6 million manufacturers: how to remain competitive despite rising labor costs due to an aging workforce.

Zhongwei manufactures automated factory lines that, unlike their mechanical predecessors which operated assembly lines at a fixed speed, now use Maglev conveyor systems that can move products between workstations at different speeds […]