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America’s New Murder Capitals

Posted: October 18, 2019 at 10:13 am

The FBI has just issued its 2018 Crime in the United States report. It has posted the report annually for eight decades. The report covers both violent and property crimes, ...
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Opioid Crisis Has Cost US Economy $631 Billion

Posted: October 17, 2019 at 12:27 pm

In the four-year period between 2015 and 2018, opioid abuse cost the U.S. economy at least $631 billion. The human cost between 1999 and 2017 totaled nearly 400,000 lives lost. ...
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Older Americans May Face Ugly Housing Choices

Posted: October 17, 2019 at 7:50 am

By 2028, the number of U.S. households headed by someone age 80 or over will total 12 million, up from 8.1 million in 2018. By 2038, that number is projected ...
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Apple Takes Crown as World’s Most Valuable Brand

Posted: October 17, 2019 at 6:30 am

The Apple brand is worth $234 billion, according to one of the most closely followed brand studies in the world. The figure is up 9% from the same study in ...
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Why Americans Are Still Afraid to Buy Self-Driving Cars

Posted: October 16, 2019 at 12:17 pm

American consumers are really lukewarm to buying all-electric vehicles (EVs) and even cooler to the idea of self-driving vehicles. A new quarterly survey from J.D. Power and SurveyMonkey released Wednesday ...
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Green Economy Generated $1.3 Trillion, 7% of US GDP

Posted: October 15, 2019 at 1:14 pm

Trying to figure out just how important the green economy is to the entire U.S. economy has been as much an art as a science. The U.S. Department of Labor ...
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Student Debt Nears $1.5 Trillion, 5 Times 2003 Level

Posted: October 14, 2019 at 9:54 am

As of the end of the second quarter of this year, U.S. student loan debt outstanding amounted to $1.48 trillion, a total more than five times the amount borrowed in ...
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Number of People Worried About Mass Shootings Rises

Posted: October 12, 2019 at 9:05 am

As the visibility and number of mass shootings in the United States rises, so has the worry that people or their families will be victims. The figure has risen particularly ...
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Where Being a Police Officer Is Rewarding, and Where It’s Not

Posted: October 11, 2019 at 10:11 am

Being a police officer in New York City's borough of Manhattan likely is considerably different from serving in Manhattan, Kansas. Pay levels, cost of living and job safety all figure ...
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An Amazing Number of People Can’t Remember What Gifts They Got Last Year

Posted: October 8, 2019 at 9:26 am

U.S. consumers are expected to loosen their wallets a bit this year and spend around 4% more on holiday gift giving than they did last year. From a retailer's perspective, ...
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More Economists Now Expect Recession, Trade Uncertainties to Blame

Posted: October 7, 2019 at 10:00 am

U.S. economic growth in the fourth quarter is expected to be 2.2%, down from 2.5% in the fourth quarter of last year. Worse, in the fourth quarter of 2020, growth, ...
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Will Holiday Retail Sales Really Be That Good?

Posted: October 4, 2019 at 9:10 am

The National Retail Federation (NRF) on Thursday released its sales estimate for the 2019 holiday season. The retail industry association expects a year-over-year increase of 3.8% to 4.2% in holiday ...
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Only 85 Shopping Days Until Christmas

Posted: October 4, 2019 at 6:45 am

According to some measures, the holiday retail sales period lasts from October 1 to December 31. It is a time that makes or breaks a number of retailers and could ...
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Is Vaping as Dangerous as Mustard Gas?

Posted: October 3, 2019 at 11:50 am

As of Wednesday, 17 deaths in the United States have been linked to a lung disease associated with the use of e-cigarettes. As of last week, the U.S. Centers for ...
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Renewable Energy to Supply Half of Global Electricity by 2050

Posted: October 3, 2019 at 9:50 am

In 2018, more than a quarter (28%) of global electricity was generated from renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydro, with the latter being responsible for 96% of renewable ...
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