🗞️Harvard to offer free tuition

...also Pepsi buys Poppi and military airstrikes

March 17, 2025

March 17th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

Harvard will offer free tuition for families earning $200,000 or less a year

Harvard has waived tuition fees for lower-earning families for over two decades. It's now expanding the offering to families earning $200,000 or less a year.

www.cnbc.com/2025/03/17/harvard-will-offer-free-tuition-for-families-earning-200k-or-less.html

  • Starting in 2025-2026 school year, Harvard has announced they will offer free tuition for students coming from families that make less than $200,000 per year

  • President Trump claimed today that because President Biden’s preemptive pardons were done by autopen and not physically signed that they are “void” and “vacant”

  • The U.S. military launched airstrikes against the “Houthi terrorists” in Yemen and Trump today said that any additional strikes from Yemen’s Houthi militants (who are backed by Iran) on American ships in the Red Sea would be seen as a direct attack from Iran…for more info on the conflict click here 

  • Irish MMA fighter, Conor McGregor, visited the White House today as a guest of honor for St.Patrick’s Day…for more details on McGregor’s time in D.C. click here

  • President Trump has announced the rest of the 80,000 pages of JFK assassination files will be released tomorrow

  • PepsiCo has announced they will buy the prebiotic soda company Poppi in a nearly $2 billion deal

  • Forever 21 has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and are expected to close all of their about 350 stores in the U.S.

  • Retail sales increased 0.2% for the month of February, better than the decrease of 1.2% the prior month, but below the estimated 0.5% increase

  • The number of Americans working more than one job hit a record 8.86 million in February…as a share of employment, multiple jobholders rose to 5.4%, the highest in 16 years

  • DOW up .85% / S&P up .64%

  • A record number of Americans have applied for U.K. citizenship, per the Financial Times

Bonus: A look at the top 10 buyer and seller housing markets in the U.S.

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