Should we be afraid to order a salad or eat a salad right now?

[laughs] You know, I have been covering this more than I wish I could talk, you know, without saying those two words that you just said when you think about the symptoms of this Cyclospora outbreak.

People are getting sick, you know, and the symptoms for this are really bad, you know, the severe stomach illness for, for weeks on end.

Right now the guidance is that there...

If you are going to eat lettuce, the, the states that have been linked to this multi-state outbreak of this parasitic stomach illness, there's nine states linked to it.

Uh, Minnesota's not one of them right now yet, but it's shredded iceberg lettuce that was sourced by Taylor Farms from central Mexico.

So that's the lettuce that's been recalled voluntarily by the company, and that includes actually a Walmart brand lettuce that was on the store shelves.

Is it the changes to how food safety is handled at the federal level and really sourcing these things that's causing the snowball effect of concerns about food safety?

But what changes for student loan borrowers go into effect today.

Yeah, 43 million people have student debt, Morgan, totaling $1.7 trillion.

And this is really the biggest overhaul of the federal student loan system in decades.

So one of the biggest changes is that going forward, if you are a new borrower, there are going to be fewer repayment plan options.

There are just going to be two new options going forward.

Also, if you're one of 7 million people enrolled in the SAVE plan, which was a Biden-era plan, that's going away.

You're going to have to choose a new plan in the next 90 days.

But I think the one question that we've seen a lot of people want to know is that did President Trump get rid of income based student loan repayment options or is that still sticking around here?

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And thank you for setting up why this matters, because this does matter for people across the economy but getting back to credit cards, look, this was a very sobering analysis.

This came out from two groups, the Century Foundation and Protect Borrowers, and it looked at specifically credit card data when it comes to Americans who are behind on their credit card bills.

So we know that credit card debt right now is at an all-time high.

What we are seeing is that more people are falling behind on their payments every month.

A record one hundred eleven million Americans, so that's about forty percent of all US adults, cannot afford to pay off their credit card bills every month.

So that means-

And by the way, even if you're living debt-free, if everyone around you is drowning in credit card debt all of a sudden, that has ramifications for your community and maybe you yourself.