Stretching Your Dollar: Free Covid Tests and Healthcare Benefits
With an uptick in reported COVID-19 cases, the U.S. government has made free testing kits available to Americans beginning today. Jacqueline Schadeck, certified financial planner at New Perspective Financial Solutions, joined 'Stretching Your Dollar' to share information on getting tests delivered, how to take advantage of health perks from insurance companies and local municipalities.
Five people were killed and two children were wounded in a shooting in Philadelphia as police arrested a suspect who was wearing a bulletproof arrest. Meanwhile in Fort Worth, Texas, three died and eight were hurt as police said several men were shooting at random near a festival celebrating July 4th.
Lawyers for Civil Rights, a nonprofit based in Boston, is filing the civil rights complaint on behalf of Black and Latino community groups in New England, alleging that Harvard’s admissions system violates the Civil Rights Act.
Tobacco manufacturers have started posting new warning signs about cigarettes in over 200,000 stores across the country, one of the final steps in a lawsuit filed by the Justice Department against Big Tobacco in 1999.
Pope Francis' appointment to lead a Vatican office that oversees sexual abuse allegations was called 'baffling' and 'troubling' by a U.S.-based accountability group.
