Stronger hurricanes and tornado-producing storms continue to make landfall in the southern United States, with September’s Hurricane Florence causing more than $5 billion in property damage in the Carolinas so far. While strong winds can cause obvious leaks and breaks, underlying damage that homeowners don’t initially notice can also crop up — and quickly escalate. […]
Parents often talk among themselves about issues and events, both positive and negative, occurring in their children’s school. However, that potentially-valuable feedback rarely reaches school administrators and teachers unless they attend a PTA meeting or there’s a one-on-one discussion about their child. “Most teachers only hear from parents when things are bad,” says Shani Dowell, a […]
When you contract an unexpected illness or are laid up with an injury, you’re likely already feeling some stress. When will you recover, are you contagious, will there be long-term consequences? But for billions around the world, that stress is magnified by an additional set of questions including: do they have the cash upfront to […]
For many patients, just getting to their doctor’s appointments is an uphill battle. Medical or cost restrictions may make public transportation and ride sharing not a viable option. Nearly 4 million adults and children with chronic conditions miss or delay medical appointments each year, because they don’t have a ride. On the other side of the equation, hospitals […]
The decades-old multi-level marketing (MLM) and direct selling industry is the original gig economy job — and with the ballooning interest of remote or flexible work, has grown into a nearly $40 billion market. In 2017, more than 20 million Americans worked as network marketers for MLM companies — an estimated one in six households […]