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Good morning! It's Daniel de Visé with your Daily Money. |
Last year, the labor market seemed to shrug off historically high interest rates and inflation, gaining well over 200,000 jobs a month. |
Well, it turns out the nation's jobs engine wasn't so invincible as it appeared. |
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on Wednesday revised down its estimate of total employment in March 2024 by a whopping 818,000, the largest such downgrade in 15 years. That effectively means there were 818,000 fewer job gains than first believed from April 2023 through March 2024, Paul Davidson reports. |
Do you really need student health insurance? |
If you have a child heading off to college this month, you may faintly recall an email from the school about student health insurance. |
Most elite private colleges, and many public institutions, automatically enroll students in Student Health Insurance Plans. The coverage cost $2,924 a year at public colleges, $3,874 a year at private ones, on average, according to an industry survey of prominent schools in the 2023-24 academic year. |
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Move over Netflix: Chick-fil-A is allegedly coming for your brand. And the internet can't stop talking about it. |
The chain is reportedly "moving aggressively" into the entertainment space, working to launch a slate of originals to run on its very own streaming platform, Amaris Encinas reports. |
Chick-fil-A is currently in talks with major production companies "to create family-friendly shows, particularly in the unscripted space," according to Deadline. They also are planning to license and acquire content in the near future, Deadline reported. |
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