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Monday, Aug 21, 2023

📅 The Week Ahead

Monday: President Biden travels to Maui

Tuesday: BRICS summit begins in South Africa (what is BRICS?)

Wednesday: The first GOP debate of the 2024 presidential election, which won’t feature front-runner Donald Trump

Thursday: National Waffle Day

Friday: The deadline to claim your piece of Meta's $725 million class-action settlement over Cambridge Analytica; Also the deadline for former President Trump to voluntarily surrender following an indictment in Georgia (Background)

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  |  August 18, 2023

How one health insurer is trying to change the industry

🔀🛡️ Blue Shield of California, one of the state’s largest health insurers, is switching up the way it buys prescription drugs in an effort to lower costs for its 4.8 million members.

Kyle Nowak & Peter Nowak
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U.S.
  |  August 15, 2023

Student-loan borrowers are feeling the Sunday Scaries

🎓💰 Next month, federal student loans will start accruing interest for the first time in more than three years. And, once payments officially resume on October 1, a large portion of the 44 million US borrowers are worried about their ability to make ends meet.

Kyle Nowak & Peter Nowak
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U.S.
  |  August 14, 2023

An update on the Maui wildfires

🔥 The death toll from the wildfire that razed the historic city of Lahaina, Hawaii, climbed to 93 over the weekend. This makes it the US’ deadliest fire since 1918.

Peter Nowak & Kyle Nowak
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