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The way I read it, what the provision does is that for every payment you make towards your student debt, your employer does a matching payment at whatever rate you're at into your 401(k). It's not leveraging anything from what I read. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

Biden keeps getting stymied every time he comes up with a workaround for student debt relief by the (ahem) courts, so this struck me as a novel approach. Is it perfect? Of course not. But it's not nothing.

Instead, your monthly student loan payments would count as your “contribution.”

The benefit could be especially significant for recent graduates, who often have moderate incomes ($58,000 to start, on average) and high levels of debt (an average of $33,000 for federal borrowers aged 25 to 35).

This is a truly . Tell your friends.

Thanks to a provision in the Secure 2.0 Act, legislation aimed at improving retirement benefits nationwide, in 2024 employers will be able to start counting student loan payments as qualifying contributions toward retirement matching programs.

That means if your employer offers to match your 401(k) contributions, you could get that matched money without ever depositing funds in your retirement account.

digbysblog.net/2024/04/30/unsu

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Um, is Governor Noem trying to turn herself into Kimberly Guilfoyle?

As promised, here is the blog version of Radio Free California Episode 2418, including programming notes for the coming week on the radio station, cheap shots about the stories of the day and more. I spend some time introducing you to the band CHERYM as well.

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Here it is my friends, Radio Free California Episode 2418. New music this week from Owen, CHERYM, Linn Koch-Emmery, Liquid Mike, David Gilmour, The Hold Steady, Queen of Jeans, St. Vincent, Ringo Starr, Six by Six and much more! Enjoy!

As per usual, my blog version will be up later today.

open.spotify.com/playlist/6mG4

New Lake Street Dive album coming in June. Here's the first single

Lake Street Dive--Good Together

youtube.com/watch?v=bn6pKkS6au

There is no good Youtube version of this I could find.

Sometimes I like ambient. I really like this. "Liberamente", by Dawn Chorus and the Infallible Sea. I was chasing a rabbit down a hole and came across this.

open.spotify.com/album/3J8oZpD

@AndersonArtwork @Museek My Spanish isn't good enough to follow the conversation or the comments, and the couple I tried to Google Translate came out kinda creepy.

@AndersonArtwork @Museek
Definitely AI. Jawline gets indistinct and in spots her skull is the same color as her hair.

They are pretty eyes though.

Just watched the live action City Hunter movie on Netflix.

Pretty good. Pretty good.

And now there's a live action adaptation of Golden Kamuy on the way?

Netflix is spending money in Japan.

I know that it's really the point of the whole thing, but the main character in "Hananoi-kun to Koi no Yami" is really broken. This is spelled out like a cute romance anime, but I'm actually hoping that the two leads don't get together.

I mean, Hananoi-kun is the kind of kid who grows up to be a serial killer.

I don't give a damn what side you're on, you need to see this. If you're not moved by it I don't want to know you.

youtube.com/watch?v=u30uST7_gs

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