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“If you wait until after you graduate, all the good ideas are going to be already taken.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Social Security’s cost-of-living adjustments are made a year in arrears, so if your costs rose this year, your Social Security payments wouldn’t go up in response until 2027.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

But for 2½ hours she got the error message and could not access the pool of tickets until 12:30 p.m., by which time, she said, “the pickings were slim.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Extra funding for the environmental regulator Natural Resources Wales and a ban on bonuses for water company bosses until sewage discharges end will clear up the country's rivers and seas, she says.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

“I can stay until Simon finds me and says it’s time to go. How’s that?”

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith