HOLY. SMOKES. If you have not started ‘Good American Family’ on Hulu…you need to.

I will do my very best NOT to spoil any of the show, as it has only four episodes released and five more scheduled for next month.

‘Good American Family’ New Hampshire Beginnings

This TV series, currently releasing episodes, has captivated millions of people – for a bad reason.

The show is mortifying. It is one of those shows you feel anxious about because it is about true events.

And the craziest part, it began in New Hampshire, according to a Today article.

Read more: the #1 TV show of all time, Breaking Bad, finished the series in New Hampshire.

Without giving away too much, a New Hampshire couple adopted a girl named Natalia Grace from Ukraine in 2008. (Closed adoption for good reason).

Just two years later, in 2010, however, that same couple put Natalia back up for adoption. (also for good reason, maybe)

But WHY? How can putting a child up for adoption for a second time be a good thing?

Because the adopted child was psychotic? A little girl murder? Perhaps stealing thousands from this New Hampshire family?

Small spoiler below (it will not give away anything important…it is the premise of the show in it of itself).

The “little girl” this New Hampshire couple adopted might not have been a “little girl” after all; she may just be a fully cooked adult with dwarfism.

OH, and the other things about her being mentally ill may also be true…

I do not know yet; there have only been four episodes.

Perhaps my opinion will change, perhaps the show will go in a completely different direction.

All I know is that you NEED to watch the show, and honestly, good for the NH couple for getting out of that situation (you’ll understand once you watch it).

NEW JERSEY — New Jersey is one of the richest states in the nation, but the money isn’t trickling down equally. This is the conclusion of a recent study, which found that there is a massive “racial wealth gap” that has only gotten worse in the past few years.

On Thursday, the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice (NJISJ) released a report that claims there are serious disparities in wealth among white, Black and Latino/Latina families in the Garden State.

“Due to small sample size and wide margins of error, we do not have sufficient evidence to publish with confidence the estimates of wealth for Asian people in New Jersey,” a spokesperson told Patch.

Read the full study and see its methodology here.

According to the Newark-based nonprofit, the median household wealth of white families in New Jersey is $662,500, compared to less than $20,000 for Black and Latina/o families.

The numbers are just as bad when examined on a per-person basis, the group says. For individuals, the median net worth of white New Jersey residents is $192,700 – compared with $14,000 and $5,000 for Black and Latino/Latina residents.

Advocates said that the wealth gap has only gotten worse since a similar analysis was done in 2022, which examined data gathered before the COVID-19 pandemic. Since that time, New Jersey’s $300,000 racial wealth gap between Black/Latina and white families has more than doubled to nearly $640,000, the NJISJ reported.

The report also found that there are other serious financial disparities in New Jersey:

HOMEOWNERSHIP GAP – “The statewide homeownership rate for white New Jersey households is 76.6%, nearly double the homeownership rates for Black and Latino/a New Jersey households who have homeownership rates of 41.3% and 40.4% percent, respectively. These disparities in homeownership have changed very little over the past decade.”

INCOME GAP – “The median household income in New Jersey is $110,100 for white households, but just $76,100 for Latina/o households and $68,900 for Black households.”

POVERTY GAP – “About one-sixth of Black and Latina/o families live below the federal poverty line, together making up over half of all people in poverty in the state – even though they represent about a third of the state’s population. And economic vulnerability is much more widespread than the federal poverty line reveals due to the inadequacy of the poverty line in measuring the true costs of necessities, particularly in New Jersey.”

“We did not come by these Two New Jerseys – a prosperous place for many white households and an economically uncertain one for the majority of our Black and Brown households – by accident,” said Laura Sullivan, director of the NJISJ’s Economic Justice Program.

“Where we are today is the result of choice – patterns created by design through public policies and social exclusions,” Sullivan said.

“We must, at this critical moment, choose better,” Sullivan added.

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HARRISBURG – Two Delaware County FedEx employees are accused of stealing cellphones from shipments and passing them off to sellers who netted over $50k.

Lahneir McBride and Cahron Wilmore, both 25, were charged with felony counts of corrupt organizations, organized retail theft, and more. 

Seven others who allegedly sold the stolen phones on several different occasions were arrested and charged with similar crimes. 

What we know:

Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday announced that two Delaware County FedEx workers were charged for stealing cellphones to resell for profit.

Investigators say Lahneir McBride and Cahron Wilmore, both 25, were both hired by FedEx last summer and ran the “theft ring” from June to September.

It’s alleged that they stole over 180 phones worth more than $173,000, and passed them off to at least seven “sellers” who offloaded the phones for $200-$300 each.

Investigators say the stolen phones were sold using EcoATM stations, which are essentially vending machines where people can buy and sell devices.

The machines record all sales with documentation and photographs, which lead police to the Linwood FedEx warehouse where McBride and Wilmore worked.

Both men were charged with felony counts of corrupt organizations, organized retail theft, and more. 

Seven people accused of selling the stolen phones were also arrested and charged.

What they’re saying:

Attorney General Dave Sunday said his office’s Organized Crime Unit will continue to “disbaned sophisticated rings that defraud unsuspecting consumers.”

“This criminal enterprise involved thefts of high-priced smartphones and the recruitment of dozens of sellers, who executed the transactions while the two ringleaders watched,” Sunday said in a statement.