Long-term care is more expensive in areas with higher housing costs.

Like everything else, where you live play a role in how much you will pay.

The cost of burial caskets and funeral expenses have been rising faster than inflation.

The calculation takes three things into account: the end-of-life long-term care costs, the funeral costs, and (for a smaller share of the population) estate and inheritance taxes.

Opinion | What does it cost to die in America? Search your Zip code. Calculate how much you should set aside for the final years of life.

People often plan financially for having children, but not for the costs that come at the end of life.

Dying is costly. I did the calculations for every zip code in America. Here's how you can start preparing for it:

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A thread of the best data graphics storytellers (+ @sadbumblebee.buzz) with niche skills looking for jobs👇

I wanna keep doing this work, in any form (podcast! newsletter! movie? AI literacy class!). Pls msg me on Signal at nitasha.10 if you need someone who’s well-sourced in AI & SV, worked hard to understand the technology + ideas + players, cares about getting it right and informing the public

Opinion | Trump’s tariffs can’t cover a bill this staggering Trump’s promises about tariff revenue don’t add up. Here’s the math.

Still doing the math...
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NEW from WaPo visual forensics on ICE shooting: Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show

1)Agent approaches empty handed
2)Agent removes gun from Pretti's waistband
3)Pretti is fatally shot

F.B.I. Searches Home of Washington Post Journalist for Classified Documents

This is an outrage. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Read @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's work:

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Good quick sketches of the situation

Opinion | Which skilled immigrants does America need? You decide. The government is now prioritizing visas for foreign workers who make higher wages.

"How are the 85,000 visa holders selected?"

See the interactive from @zhoyoyo.bsky.social: https://wapo.st/4jf0n74

Opinion | Which skilled immigrants does America need? You decide. The government is now prioritizing visas for foreign workers who make higher wages.

My last article of the year: A hypothetical think piece asking you to design the selection process for skilled immigrants to the United States.

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Does making 4x salary make someone more valuable than someone making 1x salary? What do you think?

Most Americans think killing survivors of suspected drug boat attacks is not justified.
(Taylor Orth, @today.yougov.com)
More, via Opinion Today:
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Trump’s immigration data dragnet The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year

Trump’s immigration data dragnet on.ft.com/4iNTrO9

Hurricanes and wildfires influence homebuyers, if only for a minute Interest in climate risk surges after disasters, according to the real estate platform Redfin, but soon diminishes.

Zillow made headlines pulling climate risk data off their platform. Data on Redfin users, though, shows that potential homebuyers only click a listing's flood, wildfire risk for a short time after catastrophic disasters:

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The latest from @zhoyoyo.bsky.social:

Where in America is THE BEST place to raise kids?
Here's what I found: wapo.st/49u64eL

(The stork knows!)

Poynter names 17 journalists to prestigious 2025 Power of Diverse Voices program - Poynter From person-to-person coaching and intensive hands-on seminars to interactive online courses and media reporting, Poynter helps journalists sharpen skills and elevate storytelling throughout their car...

Excited to be learning with this amazing cohort and instructors! www.poynter.org/from-the-ins...

Opinion | Two weddings and a funeral show what H-1B chaos costs America Trump’s H-1B visa fee might never go into effect, but much of the damage is already done.

Two weddings and one funeral: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... from Yan Wu @postopinions.bsky.social

Opinion | ‘Nativist hysteria’: Trump’s $100K H-1B visa fee Three writers discuss the future of skilled worker immigration under the administration’s new policy.

The Department of Homeland Security released a draft of new rules that would alter the H-1B lottery to favor higher-wage roles.

Will the H-1B program buckle under this new policy? @zhoyoyo.bsky.social, @leonkrauze.bsky.social and @cato.org's @davidjbier.bsky.social discuss:

A Beautiful Day for Saying Nothing That chill in the air isn’t Jimmy Kimmel’s show being suspended. It’s just autumn!

Authoritarianism is like measles: Ignore it and it will go away. I have this guidance straight from Secretary Kennedy. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Opinion | Here’s what it takes to encourage Americans to have more babies How costly is it to have babies in your area? Check yourself.

"An analysis of birth rates nationally showed two forces are pushing Americans away from having children," @zhoyoyo.bsky.social writes. wapo.st/4728boR

15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free. The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.

An incredible piece of journalism www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...

How AI affects software developers

How AI affects reporters and correspondents

How AI affects civil engineers

Journalists, developers and engineers may face quite different futures — based on current capabilities of AI from Anthropic's dataset. wapo.st/41bJoe0

Opinion | How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours Will AI help you work or replace you? Check yourself.

Instead of asking the binary question whether AI will replace you, here is a better way of thinking about how AI might affect your job:
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(🔸 from me!)

Opinion | Will AI help you work or replace you? Check yourself. Here’s how AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours.

The tool in this column by @zhoyoyo.bsky.social allows you to check your job and see if AI is more likely to help you on it or replace you.
Good news for pediatricians or college teachers.
Bad news for credit authorizers, translators and actors.
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From the best @crampell.bsky.social

What a great time I had working with the talented Philip Bump — what's next for him? only the sky is the limited.

Opinion | These jobs are disappearing. What can they tell us about the future? An illustrated history of work.

We're kicking off soon the second season of 'Shifts', a newsletter about disappearing jobs in comic format. We just redesigned it, so please sign up to receive it in your inbox as we release the next chapters (you will receive the old ones first)
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