I’m a Military Spouse and Federal Contractor. Here’s How People Like Me Are Falling Through the Cracks. For military spouses and veterans working as federal contractors, DOGE’s budget cuts are especially devastating.
Preparing for the Worst: 5 Steps to Review and Update Insurance Policies for Financial Security The key to staying protected is making insurance reviews a regular part of your financial routine -- because the last thing...
Off the Clock with Dr. Emma: Is Divorce the Only Way to Reclaim My Sense of Self? Military life can threaten our sense of self. But civilian life does not guarantee stability either.
Here’s a Tool to Easily Calculate Your Debt Repayment Strategy PowerPay lets you enter your debt information and how much money you have to put toward debt repayment each month, then helps...
Military Families Sue over Defense Department School Book Bans, Other Anti-Diversity Measures Alleging First Amendment violations, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday evening against the...
Beneficiaries Outside Drive Time Standard No Longer Need Waiver to Stay in Tricare Prime New Tricare contracts that went into effect Jan. 1 changed the policy to allow those who move to a location more than 30...
Your 2025 Emergency Fund: How Military Households Can Weather the Storm A readily accessible pool of cash in the form of an emergency fund provides a crucial buffer against financial shocks...
Hundreds of Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Administration’s Anti-Diversity Policies The walkouts, which included about a dozen schools on U.S. military bases in Europe, Asia and at least one stateside...
A Letter to the Mama With the Gold Star I bet you didn’t picture this -- you never expected to mark Gold Star Mother's Day.
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...