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The recent run-up in gasoline prices is now being felt nearly across the board.The national average for a gallon of gas is currently $4.94 after topping $5 per gallon for the first time ever earlier this month, according to AAA. Last year at this time, the price was $3.07 per gallon.The increase has put a severe strain on most workers' ability to cover their expenses and save for the future, according to a recent report by DailyPay, which polled more than 2,000 adults in May.More from Personal Finance:100 million adults…

President Joe Biden on Wednesday called on Congress to create a three-month federal holiday for gas and diesel fuel taxes.Biden also asked individual states to suspend their own levies on gas and diesel.The move comes a week after the average price of a gallon of gasoline in the United States reached $5 for the first time ever.Biden last week linked rising gas prices with many Americans' more pessimistic view about where the country is headed."If you notice, until gas prices started going up," Biden said during an…

U.S. President Joe Biden stands with former President Barack Obama during an event on the Affordable Care Act, the former president's top legislative accomplishment, in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 5, 2022.Leah Millis | ReutersFormer President Barack Obama called opposing a federal gas tax holiday "one of our prouder moments" during his 2008 campaign — but his vice president, Joe Biden, thinks that kind of holiday is much needed now that he's in charge at the White House.President Biden's…

WASHINGTON—President Biden said Monday that he may make a decision on seeking a pause to the federal gasoline tax by the end of the week, as Americans deal with soaring gas prices. Mr. Biden told reporters in Rehoboth Beach, Del., that he is considering a gas tax holiday. “I hope to have a decision based on the data I’m looking for by the end of the week,” he said. Gas prices started increasing last year and surged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which disrupted the…

Federal policy makers should consider a temporary gasoline-tax holiday to ease the burden of soaring fuel prices, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Sunday. “Gas prices have risen a great deal and it’s clearly burdening households,” she said on ABC’s “This Week.” “That’s an idea that’s certainly worth considering.” Ms. Yellen’s comments come as several states, including Connecticut and Maryland, have completed plans to temporarily halt gasoline taxes at the state level.…

REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Sunday that she expects the U.S. economy to slow in the months ahead, but that a recession is not inevitable. Yellen offered a dose of optimism even as economists grow increasingly worried about a recession fueled by skyrocketing inflation and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She also expressed an openness, during an interview on ABC’s “This Week,” to a federal gas tax holiday to help give motorists some relief at the pump. Several lawmakers have floated the idea…

via CBS It might be unquestionably terrible, but the Star Wars Holiday Special remains a beloved part of the franchise, even if George Lucas would be very happy if you were never able to lay eyes on the small screen abomination. It’s the Holy Grail for completionists of a galaxy far, far away, and its reputation has ironically only been enhanced and cemented by the fact the one-off has never been broadcast again, released on home video, or made available for streaming on Disney Plus. Admittedly, the animated…

Nell Stevens’s two works of nonfiction, Bleaker House and Mrs Gaskell & Me, are about her attempts to write, respectively, a novel and a PhD. The young author travels, falls in and out of love, and studies writers from the 19th century as she tries both to make sense of and escape from an uncertain present. Her own prose is frank and companionable, shrewd and funny, capturing the privileged peripatetic grind of the archive stacks and the writers’ retreat. The narrator navigates a path between an obsessive work ethic…

Google offers a host of travel tools to help users plan their vacation. These features allow users to customise their holiday/vacation searches and provide a list of travel options with pricing and stay choices. You can look for flights between two cities, add notifications for when airline ticket costs are low and much more. Here are 5 Google tools to use for your vacation planning. Google offers a host of travel tools to help users plan their vacation. These features allow users to customise their holiday/vacation…

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery — that's the official title for the sequel to writer-director Rian Johnson's 2019 mystery film, previously known colloquially as Knives Out 2. But what does Glass Onion mean? Well, famously, “Glass Onion” is a 1968 song by The Beatles, which John Lennon saw as a response to confuse those who obsessively pored over the lyrics of Beatles songs. Lennon liked the cheekiness of the words “glass onion” conveying both transparency and multiple layers. Could Johnson be hinting at something…