Lawmakers and hospitals are divided on providing free care for tax breaks Nonprofit hospitals say legislative efforts that require them to provide more free care could hurt the people they are intended to help. 05/3/2024 - 3:17 am | View Link
DAFs Provide Benefits For Givers Who Aren’t Ultra Wealthy Drawn by the convenience and simplicity of donor-advised funds, givers have opened more than 1.9 million DAFs and their popularity continues to grow. 04/30/2024 - 11:00 pm | View Link
How I Talk to Clients About Charitable Giving for Tax Breaks How Taylor Kovar, Founder and CEO of 11 Financial, explains charitable giving to clients who want to create more tax advantages in 2025 than they saw in 2024. 04/30/2024 - 2:43 am | View Link
How to Lower Your Tax Bill With the Charitable-Donation Deduction If you aren’t taking the standard deduction, you will likely qualify for tax breaks for charitable ... qualified charitable distributions, or QCDs. For 2024, these givers can contribute IRA ... 04/14/2024 - 5:04 am | View Link
You Don’t Have to Take Every Tax Deduction, and You Shouldn’t But this time of year also provides us the opportunity to ask ourselves: Is it ethical to take tax breaks that primarily make the rich richer? Yes, tax breaks benefit the billionaire class ... 04/12/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
WASHINGTON — A top U. N. official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in “full-blown famine” after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory.
Cindy McCain, the American director of the U. N. World Food Program, became the most prominent international official so far to declare that trapped civilians in the most cut-off part of Gaza had gone over the brink into famine.
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“It’s horror,” McCain told NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview to air Sunday.
Houston — Heavy storms slammed the Houston area again Friday, widening already dangerous flooding in Texas and leading to numerous high-water rescues, including some from the rooftops of flooded homes. Officials redoubled urgent instructions for residents in low-lying areas to evacuate, warning the worst was still to come.
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“This threat is ongoing and it’s going to get worse.
The Eta Aquarids meteor shower, which occurs each year as the Earth passes through remnants of Halley’s comet, is expected to reach its peak this weekend. Watchers can expect to see hundreds of meteors fill the sky in the pre-dawn hours. With the moon at a waning crescent, the show is expected to be even more vibrant than usual.
Chants of “disclose, divest, we will not stop, we will not rest” are reverberating across the globe as student-led protests in support of Palestine have popped up outside the U. S. and in countries like Australia, Mexico, and the U. K. as the Israel-Hamas war enters into its seventh month.
The best Taylor Swift needle drops will make you think about her music a little differently. A show like You might play with tone, turning an emotional ballad into comic relief, while The Buccaneers might help christen a new Swiftie classic with one pivotal scene. Some music syncs feel so seamless you may start to believe they were written specifically for a movie, while others, like Swift’s Valentine’s Day sweetheart anthem “Today Was a Fairytale,” actually was.
In a fast-food culture, there may be few things better for your health than making a simple home-cooked meal. But while the meal itself may be a good idea, the cooking part can be a problem—at least if you own a natural gas or propane stove. That’s the conclusion of a new study in Science Advances, showing that dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) are emitted by both kinds of stoves.
The findings are a result of new work conducted at Stanford University by environmental scientist Rob Jackson and graduate researcher Yannai Kashtan.