This Is the Least Educated City in the Country
Using education data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 24/7 Wall St. identified the least educated metropolitan area in the United States.
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Climate fail for corporate purpose pledges, plus tracking risk with CalPERS’ Anne Simpson
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Two years after the Business Roundtable launched what some called a revolution in American business with its statement of corporate purpose, has anything really changed? The high-profile business…
This Is the City With the Fewest People Below the Poverty Line
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis reveals that the city with the fewest people living below the poverty line is in Massachusetts.
The Best College Town to Live In After College
Austin, Texas, ranked first in a new analysis of the most dynamic American college towns.
Tahoe ski resorts fighting wildfire with snow guns; plus Rivian’s anti-SPAC IPO
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights As more than 25,000 people evacuated from one of America’s premier ski resort towns yesterday as a wall of flame approached the Lake Tahoe basin, ski mountain managers…
This Weather Disaster Killed the Most People
A drought in Ethiopia in the 1980s is thought to have killed more than a million people.
This Is the Metro Where the Most People Live Below the Poverty Line
Places where poverty is especially common the in United States are concentrated in the West, the Midwest and notably the South.
This Is the Most Financially Stressed Country in the World
(Updated) Comparethemarket created a methodology it believes answers the question of how to measure financial stress. Instead of looking at it by income alone or the circumstance of sudden burdensome expenses, it looked at…
This Is the State With the Least Student Debt
Much of the money loaned to students will never be repaid. According to EducationData.org, 7.8% of student loans are in default. Over a million student loans go into default every year. The financial challenge…
This Is the World’s Most Dangerous City
What goes into an evaluation of whether a city is safe. Crime? Personal liberty? Dangerously dirty air? Bad weather brought on by climate change? The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) released its biennial Safe Cities…
COP26 countdown begins with protests, pleas to China
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights With less than 70 days until the COP26 global climate summit begins in Glasgow, Scotland, plans and priorities are frantically being set against a backdrop of rising Covid…
This Is America’s Fastest-Growing County
The population in one county in North Dakota more than doubled from 2010 to 2020, due largely to the huge fracking boom.
Wildfire nears Tahoe ski areas; plus the financial adviser ESG shortage
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Among the environmental challenges for ski resorts, wildfires don’t often leap to mind. But this week, the fastest-growing fire in California has suddenly turned toward the Lake Tahoe…
This Is America’s Least-Educated Town
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis revealed one small town in Texas as the least educated in the United States.
This Is the Best City to Visit With Kids
Traveling has started to return, at least until recently, as the COVID-19 pandemic had begun to become less of a health hazard. A new surge of cases could delay the revival of American travel,…