Sports Betting Used to Pay Off Student Loans

In a desperate bid to pay off student loan debt, Gen Z college students have now turned to sports betting - despite many having little to no success.

As loan payments are due once again and the legalization of sports betting increases, young adults are now more willing to risk their money in hopes of striking gold.

In true Gen-Z style, they are now also documenting their entire betting process on social media in a 'joking' tone.

Megan Ortwein, a young TikToker has built her entire page on sports betting and once shared a 'joking' video of her relying on her projected wins to pay rent.

But Ortwein isn't the only young adults to go down the sports betting path.

Data from CivicScience shows about one-in-three US adults saying they have bet on sports games, rising to 47 percent among Millennials and 58 percent among Gen Z adults.     READ MORE...

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Inflation has taken an average of 25 percent - at least $2.1trillion - off the 401Ks of American workers, despite President Joe Biden's insistence Sunday that the 'economy is strong as hell.'

The analysis was done by conservative economists Stephen Moore and EJ Antoni, who said that the balance of Americans' 401ks will 'ruin your whole day, week and month.'

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The president's son was one of three Americans who joined Chinese partners in establishing the Bohai Harvest RST Equity Investment Fund Management Company, or BHR, in 2013.

The Americans controlled 30 percent of the company and made successful investments that culminated in aiding China Molybdenum purchase the Tenke Fungurume cobalt mine in the Congo from the American company Freeport-McMoRan in 2016, the New York Times reported.

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The formation, however, only consists of two galaxies and a single distant quasar that is magnified as it passes through the gravitational field of the galaxies.

The Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning ‘Einstein Ring’ 3.4 billion light-years from Earth

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By ISABELLA NIKOLIC FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 10:36 EDT, 17 August 2021 | UPDATED: 18:43 EDT, 17 August 2021