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A topic that most Americans tend to ignore, sometimes until it’s too late, is the subject of retirement savings. For this post’s purposes, we will put people into several buckets based on their age. The important age groupings here are: ...
Small businesses are an important part of our economy from both an employment perspective and from an economic activity perspective. One of the best measures of small business health is to look at small business revenue. There has been a ...
US Consumer Spending has largely recovered, but is very different since the beginning of the pandemic. ...
There has been a lot in the news about the recent coronavirus case increase in the US, but it’s also happening in many places across Europe. The coronavirus ‘experience’ globally has been different depending on where you live. There’s a ...
The marijuana vote is in. As we reported a few weeks ago, there were a number of states that had marijuana initiatives on the ballot this year. Now that it’s the Wednesday after election day, the marijuana votes have been ...
The chart below illustrates changes to teens’ favorite social media platform that they prefer to use. The chart illustrates the preferences from the Spring of 2015 thru the Fall of 2020 and illustrates the trends in taste between the (current) ...
As has been the case for the last decade or so, marijuana is on several state ballots this year. Four states are voting on recreational legalization on November 3rd with another two states voting on medical uses. The two states ...
America's favorite drink is coffee. Our tastes range from traditional to gourmet from drip to french press. Find out more about America's coffee drinking habits. ...
We’ve all experienced how the Covid-19 pandemic has influenced and changed the way we live our lives as individuals, but how has the pandemic changed ‘society’ as a whole? According to a survey conducted by Statista in June of 2020, ...
The change in employment since the pandemic lockdown has not been evenly distributed by sector. Here's where the job losses remain. ...
When you look at the stock market and wonder how the market indexes have recovered so quickly after the economic shutdown due to the coronavirus, there’s a lot of opinions as to how this happened. Outside of the technology darlings ...
Over the last year, we’ve been steadily updating a lot of data, largely centered around employment data and financial market data. While there are lots of different places to get this type of information, there was only a little bit ...