Health Insurance Helps You Live Longer
One of the most controversial parts of the Affordable Care Act (aka, the ACA or Obamacare) was the penalty for taxpayers who did not have health care coverage, the so-called ...Read Full Story »
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16 Major Housing Markets Expected to See Lower Sales and Lower Prices in 2020
Buying a home is one of the biggest financial decisions most people make. After a decade-long increase in housing prices after the Great Recession, there are at least some views ...Read Full Story »
Global Food Prices Spike Higher in November
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations tracks food prices worldwide. Those prices spiked in November, another challenge to the efforts to feed the world's hungry. The organization ...Read Full Story »
Extreme Weather Could Drive 22 Million People From Their Homes This Year
Cyclones, hurricanes and floods drove more than 7 million people from their homes in the first six months of 2019. By the end of the year, the total number of ...Read Full Story »
Top 10 Areas of the US at Risk of a Robot Takeover
Since the beginning of the Great Recession in 2009, the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has actually increased slightly from 12.561 million to 12.811 million this past ...Read Full Story »
Study: The Poor Get Less Sleep, Leading to Greater Risk of Heart Disease
According to a 2002 study of socioeconomic and behavioral influences on deaths from cardiovascular disease (CVD), about two-thirds of such deaths among the poorest quartile of the study's population would ...Read Full Story »
Carbon Capture Technology Worse Than Doing Nothing to Halt Emissions
One of the best features of technology is its promise to solve a problem without forcing any change in how people behave. One such technology, called carbon capture, was touted ...Read Full Story »
15 Cities Where AI Is About To Kill Jobs
The story about jobs lost to automation has always focused on how the workers hardest hit by the brave new world will be those whose jobs are at risk from ...Read Full Story »
Almost Half of Americans Went to Civil Court Last Year — and Not for Traffic Tickets
Not counting traffic tickets, 47% of U.S. households reported having at least one civil legal problem in 2018. Counting traffic tickets, the total rises to 56%. A quarter said they ...Read Full Story »
Here’s Why Hispanic Women Make Half What White Men Did Last Year
Tuesday, November 20, marks a dubious achievement. It is the day that the income earned by a Hispanic woman will equal the pay earned by a non-Hispanic white male in ...Read Full Story »
500 Million Pieces of Trash Cover This State’s Roads
One of America's largest states by population has roads littered with items that people have thrown away. The litter ranges from cigarette butts to bottles and aluminum cans. Researchers say ...Read Full Story »
Health Care Data Breaches May Cost More Than Money
Cybersecurity threats against health care organizations rose by 60% year over year in the first three quarters of 2019. Phishing or spear-phishing is the most commonly used attack against health ...Read Full Story »
This Iconic Car Is the Least Reliable in America
Consumer Reports recently released its annual car survey. It covered data from more than 420,000 vehicles. The study looked at the reliability of 30 auto brands. An American luxury car ...Read Full Story »
How Young People Are Endangering the Car Industry
For some reason, younger Americans are buying fewer of the vehicles sold in the United States and old people are buying a larger percentage. As of 2017, more than half ...Read Full Story »
The Threat From Antibiotic-Resistant Germs Gets Scarier
More than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States each year, and more than 35,000 people die as a result, according to the latest report from the U.S. ...Read Full Story »
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