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Time of India
20-05-2025
- Health
- Time of India
RFK Jr. calls for healthier school meals as Trump cancels program that funded them
Tucson : First-graders at John B. Wright elementary school in Tucson bounced into the brightly lit lunchroom, chattering with friends as they grabbed trays featuring juicy mandarin oranges, cherry tomatoes and butter lettuce, all grown at nearby farms that coax fresh produce from the Sonoran Desert. Those fruit and vegetables were supplied with the help of the federal Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program, or LFS, which was set to distribute $660 million to school systems and child care facilities in 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA ). The USDA abruptly canceled the program in March as part of President Donald Trump 's plans to gut the federal government. "People think it's crappy food, it's processed, unhealthy, they think it's mystery meat," said Lindsay Aguilar , who heads up the Tucson Unified School District's nutrition program. "Parents associate it from when we were in school 23 years ago. It is completely different from what it used to be." The Trump administration's mixed messages on school meals -- funding cuts alongside calls for healthier, and more costly options -- create a challenge for those involved with school nutrition programs, they told Reuters. As part of his Trump-inspired campaign to "Make America Healthy Again," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused schools of feeding children unhealthy food laden with food dyes and additives. "We need to stop poisoning our kids and make sure that Americans are once again the healthiest kids on the planet," Kennedy said at an event with U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins late last month, adding that the two agencies would be "looking at" school meals. Aguilar is skeptical. "In my opinion, if you want to make America healthy again, you have to invest in your school nutrition programs," rather than cutting them, she said. "To me, it's like, walk the talk." Kennedy did not respond to a request for an interview and a department spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 29.5 per cent of Tucson Unified School District families received SNAP food benefits in the last 12 months, well above the national average of 19.6 per cent. Many live in so-called food deserts, where there is little access to affordable, fresh food, and large grocery stores are far away. That reliance on federal nutrition support stands in sharp contrast to the area's thriving food scene. Flanked by mountain ranges, and located just 68 miles from Mexico, Tucson sits within an actual desert, studded with soaring Saguaro cacti and buzzing with wildlife. In that landscape, with its 4,000-year-old agricultural heritage, farmers grow crops like prickly pear cactus, mesquite and chiltepin peppers that award-winning chefs serve at high-end restaurants. But outside culinary circles, hunger haunts many homes. Juanita Mesquita, a school district Student Success Specialist and a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, sits with colleagues at one of the district's Family Resource Centers, located in southwestern Tucson near Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O'odham reservations. Mesquita works with Native students to help them graduate, and said hunger is an ever-present obstacle. "This morning, I had a little girl saying her stomach hurt because she didn't eat," she said. Roxanne Begay-James, the district's director of Native American Student Services, said her family lives six miles away from the nearest large supermarket. "I know in some neighborhoods here in Tucson, they have their little markets on the weekends where they can get produce and veggies and fresh baked goods. We don't have that out here," she said. At Wright Elementary, Principal Brenda Encinas said a student at her school reported eating ice cream for dinner because there was no other food at home. FREE SCHOOL MEALS All students in the Tucson Unified School District are able to eat at no charge through the USDA's Community Eligibility Provision, which allows the country's highest poverty schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to their students without collecting individual applications. Aguilar makes sure those school meals are healthy, and packed with fresh produce. In a conference room at the Shamrock Foods distribution center in Phoenix, Aguilar and close to a hundred school nutrition program staffers gathered at a meeting of the Arizona School Nutrition Association on April 30. They shared anxieties about funding cuts and made plans to lobby state legislators to protect their school meal programs. They also grumbled about perceptions, buoyed by Kennedy, that school nutrition is poor, even dangerous. Since 2010, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, championed by former first lady Michelle Obama and signed into law by former President Barack Obama, has required schools to serve more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fat-free or low-fat milk, and fewer foods high in sodium and trans fat. Yet Kennedy regularly blames school food for chronic illnesses affecting American children. Kennedy recently visited Arizona to celebrate a newly passed state law banning certain dyes and additives in school meals. Those ingredients were in just a few items in Aguilar's district, she said, and some were already being phased out. After lunch at Wright Elementary school, staffers gathered at the school nutrition program's central office to try out new recipes for ranch dressing -- an item Aguilar said would need to change to comply with the law. The old dressing contained titanium dioxide, one of the ingredients on the Arizona list, used to make food look whiter. The Food and Drug Administration has deemed it safe. She said plans were in the works to change that recipe before the law was passed. Aguilar says the relationships her district has been building with local farmers stretch back several years before the launch of LFS. The district partnered with the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona and Pivot Produce, which distributes food from Tucson area farms to buyers, to provide the schools with local produce. More menu upgrades came with the addition of LFS. For instance, USDA requires that schools serve at least a half cup of dark green vegetables every week. A common choice is romaine lettuce, Aguilar said. But there were quality issues with the romaine the district was purchasing, so it tried using locally grown butter lettuce. The lettuce cost more, and needed to be washed and chopped by staff, but it was fresher, she said. "We've introduced this local product that does take more labor and time and love to prepare. But in the end, our staff wanted that product because they saw the difference in that quality."
Ya Libnan
20-05-2025
- Health
- Ya Libnan
RFK Jr. demands healthier school meals as Trump cancels program that funded them
File : Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. President Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, testifies before a Senate Finance Committee confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 29, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard Highlights TUCSON, Arizona – First-graders at John B. Wright elementary school in Tucson bounced into the brightly lit lunchroom, chattering with friends as they grabbed trays featuring juicy mandarin oranges, cherry tomatoes and butter lettuce, all grown at nearby farms that coax fresh produce from the Sonoran Desert. Those fruit and vegetables were supplied with the help of the federal Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program, or LFS, which was set to distribute $660 million to school systems and child care facilities in 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA abruptly canceled the program in March as part of President Donald Trump 's plans to gut the federal government. 'People think it's crappy food, it's processed, unhealthy, they think it's mystery meat,' said Lindsay Aguilar, who heads up the Tucson Unified School District's nutrition program. 'Parents associate it from when we were in school 23 years ago. It is completely different from what it used to be.' The Trump administration's mixed messages on school meals — funding cuts alongside calls for healthier, and more costly options — create a challenge for those involved with school nutrition programs, they told Reuters. As part of his Trump-inspired campaign to 'Make America Healthy Again,' Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused schools of feeding children unhealthy food laden with food dyes and additives . 'We need to stop poisoning our kids and make sure that Americans are once again the healthiest kids on the planet,' Kennedy said at an event with U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins late last month, adding that the two agencies would be 'looking at' school meals. Aguilar is skeptical. 'In my opinion, if you want to make America healthy again, you have to invest in your school nutrition programs,' rather than cutting them, she said. 'To me, it's like, walk the talk.' Kennedy did not respond to a request for an interview and a department spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 29.5% of Tucson Unified School District families received SNAP food benefits in the last 12 months, well above the national average of 19.6%. Many live in so-called food deserts, where there is little access to affordable, fresh food, and large grocery stores are far away. That reliance on federal nutrition support stands in sharp contrast to the area's thriving food scene. Flanked by mountain ranges, and located just 68 miles from Mexico, Tucson sits within an actual desert, studded with soaring Saguaro cacti and buzzing with wildlife. In that landscape, with its 4,000-year-old agricultural heritage, farmers grow crops like prickly pear cactus, mesquite and chiltepin peppers that award-winning chefs serve at high-end restaurants. But outside culinary circles, hunger haunts many homes. List Now Juanita Mesquita, a school district Student Success Specialist and a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, sits with colleagues at one of the district's Family Resource Centers, located in southwestern Tucson near Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O'odham reservations. Mesquita works with Native students to help them graduate, and said hunger is an ever-present obstacle. 'This morning, I had a little girl saying her stomach hurt because she didn't eat,' she said. Roxanne Begay-James, the district's director of Native American Student Services, said her family lives six miles away from the nearest large supermarket. 'I know in some neighborhoods here in Tucson, they have their little markets on the weekends where they can get produce and veggies and fresh baked goods. We don't have that out here,' she said. At Wright Elementary, Principal Brenda Encinas said a student at her school reported eating ice cream for dinner because there was no other food at home. FREE SCHOOL MEALS All students in the Tucson Unified School District are able to eat at no charge through the USDA's Community Eligibility Provision, which allows the country's highest poverty schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to their students without collecting individual applications. Aguilar makes sure those school meals are healthy, and packed with fresh produce. In a conference room at the Shamrock Foods distribution center in Phoenix, Aguilar and close to a hundred school nutrition program staffers gathered at a meeting of the Arizona School Nutrition Association on April 30. They shared anxieties about funding cuts and made plans to lobby state legislators to protect their school meal programs. They also grumbled about perceptions, buoyed by Kennedy, that school nutrition is poor, even dangerous. Since 2010, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, championed by former first lady Michelle Obama and signed into law by former President Barack Obama, has required schools to serve more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fat-free or low-fat milk, and fewer foods high in sodium and trans fat. Yet Kennedy regularly blames school food for chronic illnesses affecting American children. Kennedy recently visited Arizona to celebrate a newly passed state law banning certain dyes and additives in school meals. Those ingredients were in just a few items in Aguilar's district, she said, and some were already being phased out. After lunch at Wright Elementary school, staffers gathered at the school nutrition program's central office to try out new recipes for ranch dressing — an item Aguilar said would need to change to comply with the law. The old dressing contained titanium dioxide, one of the ingredients on the Arizona list, used to make food look whiter. The Food and Drug Administration has deemed it safe. She said plans were in the works to change that recipe before the law was passed. Aguilar says the relationships her district has been building with local farmers stretch back several years before the launch of LFS. The district partnered with the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona and Pivot Produce, which distributes food from Tucson area farms to buyers, to provide the schools with local produce. More menu upgrades came with the addition of LFS. For instance, USDA requires that schools serve at least a half cup of dark green vegetables every week. A common choice is romaine lettuce, Aguilar said. But there were quality issues with the romaine the district was purchasing, so it tried using locally grown butter lettuce. The lettuce cost more, and needed to be washed and chopped by staff, but it was fresher, she said. 'We've introduced this local product that does take more labor and time and love to prepare. But in the end, our staff wanted that product because they saw the difference in that quality.' (Reuters)
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
RFK Jr. calls for healthier school meals as Trump cancels program that funded them
By Renee Hickman TUCSON, Arizona (Reuters) -First-graders at John B. Wright elementary school in Tucson bounced into the brightly lit lunchroom, chattering with friends as they grabbed trays featuring juicy mandarin oranges, cherry tomatoes and butter lettuce, all grown at nearby farms that coax fresh produce from the Sonoran Desert. Those fruit and vegetables were supplied with the help of the federal Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program, or LFS, which was set to distribute $660 million to school systems and child care facilities in 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The USDA abruptly canceled the program in March as part of President Donald Trump's plans to gut the federal government. 'People think it's crappy food, it's processed, unhealthy, they think it's mystery meat,' said Lindsay Aguilar, who heads up the Tucson Unified School District's nutrition program. 'Parents associate it from when we were in school 23 years ago. It is completely different from what it used to be.' The Trump administration's mixed messages on school meals -- funding cuts alongside calls for healthier, and more costly options -- create a challenge for those involved with school nutrition programs, they told Reuters. As part of his Trump-inspired campaign to "Make America Healthy Again," Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has accused schools of feeding children unhealthy food laden with food dyes and additives. 'We need to stop poisoning our kids and make sure that Americans are once again the healthiest kids on the planet,' Kennedy said at an event with U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins late last month, adding that the two agencies would be 'looking at' school meals. Aguilar is skeptical. 'In my opinion, if you want to make America healthy again, you have to invest in your school nutrition programs,' rather than cutting them, she said. "To me, it's like, walk the talk.' Kennedy did not respond to a request for an interview and a department spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 29.5% of Tucson Unified School District families received SNAP food benefits in the last 12 months, well above the national average of 19.6%. Many live in so-called food deserts, where there is little access to affordable, fresh food, and large grocery stores are far away. That reliance on federal nutrition support stands in sharp contrast to the area's thriving food scene. Flanked by mountain ranges, and located just 68 miles from Mexico, Tucson sits within an actual desert, studded with soaring Saguaro cacti and buzzing with wildlife. In that landscape, with its 4,000-year-old agricultural heritage, farmers grow crops like prickly pear cactus, mesquite and chiltepin peppers that award-winning chefs serve at high-end restaurants. But outside culinary circles, hunger haunts many homes. Juanita Mesquita, a school district Student Success Specialist and a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, sits with colleagues at one of the district's Family Resource Centers, located in southwestern Tucson near Pascua Yaqui and Tohono O'odham reservations. Mesquita works with Native students to help them graduate, and said hunger is an ever-present obstacle. 'This morning, I had a little girl saying her stomach hurt because she didn't eat,' she said. Roxanne Begay-James, the district's director of Native American Student Services, said her family lives six miles away from the nearest large supermarket. 'I know in some neighborhoods here in Tucson, they have their little markets on the weekends where they can get produce and veggies and fresh baked goods. We don't have that out here,' she said. At Wright Elementary, Principal Brenda Encinas said a student at her school reported eating ice cream for dinner because there was no other food at home. FREE SCHOOL MEALS All students in the Tucson Unified School District are able to eat at no charge through the USDA's Community Eligibility Provision, which allows the country's highest poverty schools to provide free breakfast and lunch to their students without collecting individual applications. Aguilar makes sure those school meals are healthy, and packed with fresh produce. In a conference room at the Shamrock Foods distribution center in Phoenix, Aguilar and close to a hundred school nutrition program staffers gathered at a meeting of the Arizona School Nutrition Association on April 30. They shared anxieties about funding cuts and made plans to lobby state legislators to protect their school meal programs. They also grumbled about perceptions, buoyed by Kennedy, that school nutrition is poor, even dangerous. Since 2010, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, championed by former first lady Michelle Obama and signed into law by former President Barack Obama, has required schools to serve more fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fat-free or low-fat milk, and fewer foods high in sodium and trans fat. Yet Kennedy regularly blames school food for chronic illnesses affecting American children. Kennedy recently visited Arizona to celebrate a newly passed state law banning certain dyes and additives in school meals. Those ingredients were in just a few items in Aguilar's district, she said, and some were already being phased out. After lunch at Wright Elementary school, staffers gathered at the school nutrition program's central office to try out new recipes for ranch dressing -- an item Aguilar said would need to change to comply with the law. The old dressing contained titanium dioxide, one of the ingredients on the Arizona list, used to make food look whiter. The Food and Drug Administration has deemed it safe. She said plans were in the works to change that recipe before the law was passed. Aguilar says the relationships her district has been building with local farmers stretch back several years before the launch of LFS. The district partnered with the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona and Pivot Produce, which distributes food from Tucson area farms to buyers, to provide the schools with local produce. More menu upgrades came with the addition of LFS. For instance, USDA requires that schools serve at least a half cup of dark green vegetables every week. A common choice is romaine lettuce, Aguilar said. But there were quality issues with the romaine the district was purchasing, so it tried using locally grown butter lettuce. The lettuce cost more, and needed to be washed and chopped by staff, but it was fresher, she said. 'We've introduced this local product that does take more labor and time and love to prepare. But in the end, our staff wanted that product because they saw the difference in that quality."
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Louisiana officials lament loss of USDA money to help schools, food banks buy from local farmers
Lance Cheung/USDA photo Louisiana lawmakers are asking Congress to bring back a $1 billion federal program that allows schools, child care programs, and food banks to purchase locally grown produce and protein. The Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program and Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program, both administered through the U.S. Department of Agriculture, were axed in March as part of the Trump administration's move to reduce federal government spending. Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner Mike Strain said some small and mid-sized farms had already started planting and planning for their crops to be bought by schools or food banks through the defunded initiatives. '[If they are lost], it would be detrimental for the schools, it would be detrimental for those small farmers because they really rely on this,' Strain said. Louisiana will lose out on more than $18 million from the food-buying programs over the next three years, according to federal data. State Sen. Patrick McMath, R-Covington, authored Senate Concurrent Resolution 20 to urge Congress to put the funding back, specifically for schools. McMath is championing bills focused on the Make America Healthy Again movement to banish ultra-processed foods from school lunches. He said he believes local purchasing programs can help get healthier food options on children's lunch trays. In a state Senate Agriculture Committee hearing Wednesday, Strain mentioned examples of Louisiana businesses taking a hit from the federal program cuts. Harris Cattle Co., a Ville Platte business, sells $380,000 worth of meat to nine school districts. Another farm sold $7,000 worth of okra to area schools, the agriculture commissioner said. 'Instead of using processed foods, we want food from scratch. We want fresh okra, we want fresh broccoli, we want fresh corn on the cob. That is what we are looking for,' Strain said. Strain said he has been in direct contacted with members of Louisiana's congressional delegation to make them aware of the impacts from the USDA spending reductions. U.S. Rep. Julie Letlow , R-Louisiana, sits on a House Appropriations subcommittee on agriculture that met Wednesday to discuss the proposed federal budget. More information about the reorganization of the USDA is anticipated to be released in the coming weeks, which could mean a chance for the funding to return in some capacity, Strain said. The Local Food for Schools Program began in 2022 as part of the Inflation Reduction Act passed by the Biden Administration. A USDA spokesperson told Politico the programs 'no longer effectuate the goals of the agency.' Local Food Purchase Assistance agreements in place prior to 2025 renewals were set to take effect, will remain in place for the remainder of their agreed-upon terms, according to the USDA. McMath's resolution does not specifically ask for food bank funding to be returned, but Feeding Louisiana executive director Pat Van Burkleo said he'll work with a legislator next week to make that request. The latest USDA cuts come at a very inopportune time, as the Trump administration is also slashing the Emergency Food Assistance Program. 'We can't make up what the federal government cuts for food banks. We can ask for help, but it doesn't make it up,' Van Burkleo said Feeding Louisiana represents the state's five regional food banks, which cover all 64 parishes. The group is spreading a petition to gain the attention of Gov. Jeff Landry to get his support for calling on Congress to restore the funding. Their goal is 500 signatures by next week. As of Wednesday, the count was already over 260. Van Burkleo said losing this funding not only harms schools trying to serve healthy foods, but also small farmers who often work multiple jobs without avenues to sell their produce on a greater scale. 'It is a great program designed to help the small, underserved minority farmers in rural communities. They have never had this opportunity to get this kind of dollars,' Van Burkleo said. SUPPORT: YOU MAKE OUR WORK POSSIBLE
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Food banks brace for shortfalls after losing $500M in funding — here's how to make ends meet on a tight budget
As the Trump administration continues to slash funding wherever it sees fit, America's food banks are sounding the alarm. According to PBS, the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently halted more than $500 million in deliveries to food banks throughout the country, and that's coming at a time when Americans should be bracing for higher food costs due to President Trump's tariff policies. I'm 49 years old and have nothing saved for retirement — what should I do? Don't panic. Here are 5 of the easiest ways you can catch up (and fast) Thanks to Jeff Bezos, you can now become a landlord for as little as $100 — and no, you don't have to deal with tenants or fix freezers. Here's how Nervous about the stock market in 2025? Find out how you can access this $1B private real estate fund (with as little as $10) Although inflation has cooled in recent months, food prices remain elevated. The cost of groceries in March was up 2.4%, per the Consumer Price Index, with many families relying on food banks in the absence of being able to afford groceries for themselves. The American Enterprise Institute, analyzing Census Bureau data, reports that 6.2% of American households relied on food assistance in October 2021. And despite a slowdown in broad inflation, that share had increased to 6.8% by May 2024. With the USDA's halted funding — coupled with the fact that many Americans are struggling to put food on the table — food banks throughout the country are beginning to worry about not just the stability of their organizations, but also the health and safety of the people they serve. "This is an extraordinarily serious moment for food banks all across the United States," Vince Hall, Chief Government Relations Officer for Feeding America, told PBS. "Any reduction in the supply of food to food banks is going to have very significant impacts for people facing hunger." As part of a broad government overhaul that was implemented earlier this year, the USDA has faced significant funding cuts and is scrambling in that aftermath. But it's hungry Americans who stand to suffer. In March, the USDA cut funding earmarked for two key programs — the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program (LFS), which provided funds to child care facilities and schools, and the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA), which provided local food banks with funding. Despite low unemployment levels, many Americans are struggling to afford groceries due to inflation. Between 2020 and 2024, U.S. food prices rose 23.6%, reports the USDA. And because of this, many households have grown increasingly reliant on food banks. In April, the Atlanta Community Food Bank provided Newsweek with an update on its service, saying that the number of people it serves has increased by 60% over the last three years — and that's just one example. At a time when food banks are serving more people than ever, a reduction in funding can be devastating. In late March, CNN reported that the Central California Food Bank, which distributes food to dozens of pantries in the county, was told that $850,000 worth of food deliveries slated for the April to June timeframe had been canceled. 'My food bank in Fresno can't magically come up with $850,000 and 500,000 pounds of food to backfill that cancellation,' Natalie Caples, the Central California Food Bank's co-CEO, shared with CNN. Compounding the problem is that in the absence of USDA food deliveries, many local food banks don't know where else to turn. "Food banks were already maxing out their supply chains," said Hall to PBS. "They were already going to every conceivable donor, looking for every conceivable pound of food and asking every community to support. And so the reality is, we're going to be short." Read more: This hedge fund legend warns US stock market will crash a stunning 80% — claims 'Armageddon' is coming. Don't believe him? He earned 4,144% during COVID. Here's 3 ways to protect yourself In late 2024, Swiftly reported that 70% of Americans were struggling to afford groceries. The Urban Institute also found that in 2023, 19.3% of Americans paid for groceries using savings that had initially been earmarked for other purposes. Not only that, but 20% of Americans paid for groceries with a credit card and did not manage to pay the full balance. If you're struggling to put food on the table and your local food bank seems to have a limited supply, there may be other resources you can tap. First, it pays to see if you qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits, but eligibility can vary by state. Your best bet is to contact your local state office to see if you may be eligible. You can also see if you qualify for benefits through WIC — a "special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children" — and the best way to go about that is to apply through a local agency where you live. If your local food bank's resources can't meet your needs, another option is to see if a local house of worship can assist, as they may have their own food assistance programs in place. Another thing worth doing is checking to see if any local restaurants in your area have programs where they distribute excess food at the end of the day or week. You can also see if there are any community restaurants in your area that welcome diners who can't afford to pay, free of charge. New Jersey's JBJ Soul Kitchen is one such example. The restaurant serves both paying and non-paying customers, and diners are encouraged to explore volunteer opportunities to keep that effort going. There are also steps you can take to feed your family on a very tight budget. First, plan your meals in advance based on what's on sale at local supermarkets. Also, turn to discount grocers and dollar stores to stock up on as many essentials as possible. Finally, if there are farms in your area, you may also find that you're able to buy fresh produce at a lower price than what a supermarket will charge. Purchasing produce directly from the farm could help with keeping costs down as well. Want an extra $1,300,000 when you retire? Dave Ramsey says this 7-step plan 'works every single time' to kill debt, get rich in America — and that 'anyone' can do it Rich, young Americans are ditching the stormy stock market — here are the alternative assets they're banking on instead Here are 5 'must have' items that Americans (almost) always overpay for — and very quickly regret. How many are hurting you? This article provides information only and should not be construed as advice. It is provided without warranty of any kind.
