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Remote online notarization (RON)

Besides the Covid factor, RON (also called Remote Electronic Notarization) is useful for convenience and safety, as well as when you are in a different state from the notary.  Having just helped a relative settle an estate, RON could have saved us some trips to offices.  Thanks to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for this…

Few go back to work when unemployment benefits are cut off early

 Despite the rhetoric, few Americans returned to work when red states cut back unemployment benefits early. Instead, consumer spending dropped, hurting the economies of those states. Half the states (26), all with Republican governors except one, have ceased expanded unemployment benefits during Covid. “Several recent studies, however, have concluded that the extra payments have played…