Marrying someone with the same religion is still a widespread practice in the United States. But a study shows that, compared to years past, more people have been marrying someone from a different religious group, in recent years. A 2015 study by the Pew Research Center found that 39% of married Americans have a spouse from another … Read more
The combined water levels at Queensland dams have fallen below 60%. Seqwater, the water operator for Southern Queensland, is planning to activate the Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme once water levels fall below 40%, potentially adding 180 million litres of recycled water. Strict Water Restrictions in Queensland Parts of Queensland is under very strict water … Read more
Warning signs, safety training, disability insurance: workers and employees tend to take these things for granted until the worst case scenario becomes a tragic and tangible reality. There’s a good reason these workplace provisions are in place. In 2017, more than 5,000 U.S. workers were killed on the job – that’s 14 deaths every day. … Read more
Getting into a road accident is an extremely harrowing experience. If you have suffered physical injuries, most of your battle is recovering from those injuries. But even if you luckily avoid physical injuries, it can take a long time to heal emotionally from such a traumatic event. In Australia, over three people die in car crashes every … Read more
In theory, relationships are simple. Marry when you’re ready. Break up when you’ve gone unhappy. But in real life, it’s much more complicated than this — most especially the part of the break-up. All too often, the opposite happens. Rather than leaving a bad, miserable, sometimes abusive marriage, people stay. They would experience brief peaks … Read more
Lender overlays represent the additional rules mortgage companies observe to lower the risk they absorb when selling loans. These additional requirements are voluntary, which is why your credentials might still not be good enough to some lenders even if you meet the essential criteria set in place by government agencies, like the FHA, and government-sponsored … Read more
In the Beehive State, we do not think about the interplay among the different aspects of our finances as much as we should. Our financial goals and obligations are inevitably intertwined, so we ought to understand their relationships to one another to make strategic decisions and ultimately win in life. A good example is the … Read more
Back in the day, a person needed to shoulder half of a house’s price to qualify for a mortgage to buy it. Over a decade ago, lenders were selling home loans liberally. These two extremes did not benefit everybody in the long run. Now, moderate asset reserve requirements exist to weed out unready homebuyers and … Read more
Nowadays, the competitive environment of the sports industry is not just felt inside a game venue, but in the outside world as well. Accordingly, there are a lot of sports clubs and icons that fight to get the public’s attention and support. Talent may seem adequate, but having a team of skilled players is not enough … Read more
Nearly every time someone shows an affinity to coaxing seeds into lush plants or a talent for turning fallow backyards into thriving gardens, somebody will inevitably say that they have “a green thumb.” Some people treat it as if it’s a mythical ability, evoking the imagery of druids revitalizing forests or harvest deities blessing fields … Read more