GBR’s Top Stories of the Week: Grocery Items To Buy Now, a $2K Quarter and Our DOGE Poll

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It’s been another wild week in the worlds of business, government and personal finance, and we’ve done our best to provide you with a wide array of helpful tips and useful information.

In case you missed them, here are a few of our top stories from the week of April 13. Have a wonderful weekend, and be sure to take a closer look at your spare change.

Take Our Poll

Elon Musk and the newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are on a mission to eliminate waste from the United States government. Among the programs they are looking at is Social Security, which supports over 70 million retired Americans.

Tell us what you think: Are you concerned Elon Musk’s DOGE will eliminate Social Security?

Check Your Pockets

The next time you toss a quarter into a gumball machine down at the local grocery store, think about this: That piece of gum could be costing you a lot more. It all depends on which type of quarter you use. If it’s a Wisconsin state quarter issued in 2004, it could be worth at least $30 — and maybe much more.

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For those of you who found the wildly escalating egg prices of the last year to simply be too much, here are some grocery items you’d be wise to stock up on before tariff hikes edge them out of your price range.

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