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It's Official: Social Security Benefits Get a 2.5% COLA in 2025, but It Comes With Bad News for Retirees

https://www.fool.com/retirement/2024/10/10/official-social-security-cola-2025-bad-news-retire/#:~:text=Social Security benefits will get,lose purchasing power next year.

Here is the 2025 Pay Raise for Disabled Veterans and Military Retirees

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/10/10/here-2025-pay-raise-disabled-veterans-and-military-retirees.html#:~:text=Military retirees and disabled veterans,or COLA%2C tied to inflation.

Military retirees and disabled veterans will receive 2.5% increases to their monthly paychecks for 2025, thanks to the annual Cost of Living Adjustment, or COLA, tied to inflation.

While 2.5% may look low compared to recent years' COLA adjustments of 3.2% (2024), 8.7% (2023) and 5.9% (2022), it's still close to the average of about 2.6% for the past decade.

More Than 5,700 Children in the US Had Trans Surgery Between 2019 and 2023: https://www.parentherald.com/articles/235401/20241009/more-5700-children-us-had-trans-surgery-between-2019-2023-report.htm

More than 5,700 children in the United States underwent sex change surgery from 2019 to 2023, according to a new database tracking transgender children's clinics in the country.

The "Does My Hospital Transition Kids?" database was made by Do No Harm, a nonprofit that opposes the politicization of medicine. The database tracked gender-affirming care provided to minors, including puberty blockers, hormone replacement therapy (HRT), and sex change surgery. It then mapped providers and hospitals that provided these types of services to minors from 2019 to 2023.

In the four-year period, researchers for Do No Harm found that there were 13,994 minors who received gender-affirming care or treatment for gender dysphoria, a psychological condition characterized by distress that happens when a person's gender identity does not align with their sex assigned at birth.

Kenyans Eligible for 4,000 US Green Cards: Application Process Explained

https://mwakilishi.com/article/immigration-news/2024-10-09/kenyans-eligible-for-4000-us-green-cards-application-process?cid=h

The United States' 2026 Diversity Visa (DV) lottery program has commenced, offering Kenyan citizens a pathway to American permanent residency.

The application period, which began on October 2, 2024, represents a crucial opportunity for eligible Kenyans aspiring to build a new life in the United States. With approximately 4,000 visas allocated to Kenyan applicants out of the program's annual 55,000 total, this initiative, colloquially known as the "Green Card Lottery," continues to symbolize hope and opportunity for many. The US Embassy in Nairobi has announced a November 5, 2024 deadline for submissions and emphasizes the program's role in promoting diversity within the American immigrant population.

More ill educated third world, who won't work when the government supports them, don't learn English. While we have White Christians being denied Citizenship. Tennessee family denied visa twice, once under Obama, the other by Biden. Tennessee family facing deportation 15 years after fleeing Germany to homeschool kids granted 1-year reprieve, A German family that faced deportation after making a home for themselves in East Tennessee for the past 15 years has been granted a one-year stay of removal, a source familiar with the situation told Fox News Digital.

The development comes after lawmakers intervened on the Romeike family's behalf, asking U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to reconsider the move.

"We are asking you and your office to give this family a chance to continue building their lives in Tennessee. It is our understanding a court has ruled they are allowed to stay indefinitely, as long as they fulfill their obligation of checking in as ordered by ICE. To our knowledge they have been faithful in doing so," a number of Tennessee lawmakers pled in a letter to ICE Deputy Director Patrick J. Lechleitner. https://www.foxnews.com/media/tennessee-family-facing-deportation-15-years-fleeing-germany-homeschool-kids-granted-1-year-reprieve

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