If you’re wealthy, you’ll be able to afford help in your home or care in an assisted-living facility or a nursing home. If you’re poor, you can turn to Medicaid for nursing homes or aides at home. But if you’re middle class, you’ll have a thorny decision to make: whether to buy long-term care insurance.…
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The first data on births since Roe v. Wade was overturned shows how much abortion bans have had their intended effect: Births increased in every state with a ban, an analysis of the data shows. By comparing birth statistics in states before and after the bans passed, researchers estimated that the laws caused around 32,000…
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Since 2021, when her bosses asked her to make her Instagram account public, her following has gone from under 1,000 to 148,000. She’s not on TikTok, yet a search of her name there pulls up 2.2 million views. The selfies Ms. Gayot casually shoots in the full-length mirror of her office of herself wearing J.…
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“I wanted all of my sisters to feel a little bit of that glamour and that luxury and how fun and special it feels to be a bride,” Ms. Sandhu said. Wedding planning inspiration often begins on apps like Instagram, Pinterest and TikTok, where bridesmaid proposals have gained steam in recent years. As brides seek…
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Eleven-year-old Eric Darnell Pritchard was a solitary kid. They preferred reading romance novels to playing sports, and watching soap operas to hanging out with the neighborhood kids. Although they were obsessed with love, they felt too different to find a romantic connection of their own. Then, a cute boy moved in across the street. To…
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When Marissa Vosper started the intimates brand Negative Underwear in 2014, she and her co-founder Lauren Schwab decided not to retouch women’s bodies in the marketing materials. Ms. Vosper called the move “a no-brainer” — befitting a business that sells mostly sheer, wireless, ultra-minimal bras. There would be no #photoshopfails of the kind that go…
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Some of the 30 million passengers expected to fly domestically over this Thanksgiving holiday may be stunned by what’s available to eat and drink 30,000 feet up in the sky. To entice more travelers to pay premium fares and better stand out from the competition, major U.S. carriers have been significantly expanding their food and…
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For 35 years, Angela Jemmott and her five brothers paid premiums on a long-term care insurance policy for their 91-year-old mother. But the policy does not cover home health aides whose assistance allows her to stay in her Sacramento bungalow, near the friends and neighbors she loves. Her family pays $4,000 a month for that.…
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Every day, Davida Wynn sets herself one task: Take a bath. Or wash the dishes. Or make an elaborate meal. By the end of the chore, she is exhausted and has to sit or lie down, sometimes falling asleep wherever she happens to be. “Anything beyond that is truly excruciating,” Ms. Wynn, 42, said. Her…
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