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Anthony Hazzard
April 10, 2025

💵 Today’s Top Stories
License

If you use a driver’s license as identification when you fly and it isn’t REAL ID-compliant, the TSA will turn you away starting May 7. Here’s how to tell if your license is already compliant. Read more.

Charging cell phone

You’re sitting at an airport or hotel when you spot a cell phone-charging USB port. Eureka! But the FBI issued a warning against using those due to this nasty scam. Read more.

Mail

You may not think twice if you’re getting mail in another person’s name. But as Clark says, “It could be nothing, and it could be ugly.” Here’s the potentially devastating scam. Read more.

Tires

Team Clark tells you how much you should spend on tires, the best inexpensive brands and where to shop for tires. Read more.

Credit Cards

All nine of these credit cards charge annual fees of less than $100 and offer welcome bonuses to new card holders. Read more.

💻️ Tech Tip From Kim Komando

Use Gmail on your Android? If you pay for the Google Workspace plan (or your work does), you can now chat with Google’s AI, Gemini, about your emails. The bot has access to your entire inbox, so it can summarize your emails (“What did Mary want?”) or find specific info for you (“When’s the app design deadline?”). To use it, tap the black star logo in the top-right corner of the app. Join 575K people who get tech smart with my friend Kim Komando’s free newsletter, The Current.

🏡 It’s a Baby Boomer (Housing) World…

… And we’re all living in it.

This prolonged period of housing affordability crisis and much higher mortgage rates have skewed the demographics of home buyers.

That’s taking the checkered flag with ease ahead of Millennials (29%) and Gen Xers (24%).

Wrote Sherwood News: “Part of the season might be that older cohorts were able to skip the mortgage market entirely. Indeed, boomer buyers are increasingly purchasing homes entirely with cash, with half of older boomers (70-78 years old) and 40% of younger boomers (60-69 years old) bypassing financing altogether.”

Boomers are also dominating the sellers market (53%) and own about 51% of all household wealth in the United States (vs. about 10% for Millennials).

📊 Stat of the Day

🏘️ $50,000: The size of the down payment that Pawnee City, Nebraska, is offering to new residents. The town of less than 1,000 people is attempting to fight a 50-year population decline. Average home value in Pawnee City? Less than $103,000 (new builds are listed at $325,000 on the program’s website).

💰️ Deal Alert: Today’s Top Deals
Will
Costco
🎙️ Podcast

Remember when everything at Dollar Tree was only $1? Those days are long gone. Dollar Tree raised prices a few years ago to $1.25 – and more hikes are coming soon. Also, Clark discusses the best places to buy gas to help your car and your wallet.

☎️ Need Money Help?

The Team Clark Consumer Action Center is a free helpline that can help you navigate your money questions. Call 636-492-5275. Visit clark.com/cac for more information.

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