Creators will be able to earn extra money through tips. Instagram and Facebook are adding tipping features that allow fans to pay creators.



During the debate on the House floor, before the bill passed, several members of the Congressional Black Caucus defended the legislation against Republicans who took issue with the bill. Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich., a vice chair of the CBC, refuted Republican Rep. Clay Higgins’s claim that Juneteenth “co-opted” Independence Day. Higgins, R-La., ultimately voted for the bill.
If you are tech-savvy, it will cost less, but if you need to hire experts to build your site or create content, your costs will increase. Estimate around $60 in start-up for a completely DIY blog, between paying for a domain name and web hosting. If you decide to have professionals handle any part of your blog, though, expect costs to rise quickly.


"If you look at what labels like BMG are doing now, where they're doing standard 30% deals [where artists gets 70% of the money], then Sony haven't even got to what 'good' looked like a decade ago."
Best Buy offers a wider array of smart-home speakers and smart displays than Amazon, Walmart, or Target. Options from Amazon’s entire line of Alexa speakers and smart displays are available. Similarly, all options from the Google Assistant–based line of Nest Google smart speakers and smart displays are available at Best Buy and not at Amazon. So for those who prefer to shout at Google instead of Alexa, look to the yellow-tagged electronics retailer as a likely source. Our smart-plug picks and other smart options have also historically seen sales from Best Buy during Prime Day.

The tax data was provided to ProPublica after we published a series of articles scrutinizing the IRS. The articles exposed how years of budget cuts have hobbled the agency’s ability to enforce the law and how the largest corporations and the rich have benefited from the IRS’ weakness. They also showed how people in poor regions are now more likely to be audited than those in affluent areas.

Consider round-up programs.

The Ohio Casino Control Commission will begin accepting applications for sports betting licenses on Jan. 1 and begin awarding licenses by April 1. Ohio could earn about $17 million in tax revenue for the fiscal year beginning July 1 of 2022 and $23 million the following year, according to a legislative analysis. The bill calls for 98% of the tax to be deposited in an education fund and the remaining 2% in a fund for problem sports gambling.
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