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Amber Katz

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Indexed articles, last 90 days
6
Latest publication
Sep 4, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Yahoo
Top 50K sites
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Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 4, 2026 · Amber Katz

    Labor Day deals for the home upgrades you keep putting off (opens the original)

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    Labor Day sales are approaching! Let's be real with each other though: They can feel like a lot of noise for not much payoff. Everyone's pushing patio furniture and mattress toppers, but the upgrades that make the biggest difference in daily life are usually the ones you don't think about until they're gone. Think: reliable appliances, better storage, cleaner water. This roundup skips the gimmicks and sticks to home upgrades you'll actually notice using, whether that's this week or six months fr

  2. Article · Aug 9, 2026 · Amber Katz

    Your store-brand chicken is probably Tyson or Perdue in different packaging — here's what we actually know (opens the original)

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    TL;DR: A small number of companies — primarily Tyson Foods and Perdue — supply the majority of store-brand and private-label chicken sold in American grocery stores. Aldi's Kirkwood chicken is Tyson. Walmart's Great Value chicken is largely Tyson, with some Perdue. The most reliable way to identify who made your store-brand chicken is to check recall records, where the producing company is legally required to be named. The store brand and the name brand often come from the same processing facili

  3. Article · Aug 3, 2026 · Amber Katz

    A top NYC hairstylist says most people are washing their hair wrong (opens the original)

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    Skip the daily clarifying shampoo (once a month is plenty), give your scalp a couple weeks to adjust if you're cutting back on washes, and build your frizz routine around a solid conditioner before you reach for extras. Speck's kit staples include Iles Formula Signature Set, Oribe Super Fine Hairspray, Bumble and bumble Thickening Spray, and Bed Head Queen For A Day. Ask ten people how often you should wash your hair and you'll get ten different answers. So we went to Travis Speck, a hairstylist

  4. Article · Aug 1, 2026 · Amber Katz

    A food safety expert explains why the cyclospora outbreak took so long to trace — and what companies should be doing differently (opens the original)

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    Weeks into the cyclospora outbreak — with an estimated 18,000 Americans sickened across 45 states, a voluntary recall still in effect, and investigators still piecing together a picture that involves multiple possible sources — the food safety questions are stacking up. I asked David Lennarz, co-founder and President of Registrar Corp and a food safety and FDA compliance expert, to explain what the outbreak reveals about the current state of supply chain traceability, what the Taylor Farms false

  5. Article · Jul 17, 2026 · Amber Katz

    Stop buying more toys. Here's how to give a child's future a head start instead. (opens the original)

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    Before I became a freelance writer covering beauty, lifestyle, and parenting, I spent years as a copywriter for a mutual fund company, meaning, I wrote about 529 plans constantly. Education savings plans, tax-advantaged growth, the power of compounding over time. I understood then, intellectually, how important they were. As a parent now, I understand it in a different way entirely. And I've been waiting for something that makes contributing to one as frictionless as everything else has become.

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