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Truth to be told, almost anyone would rather live in Malibu, the pristine California city overlooking the Pacific than in Detroit with its vacant homes, high poverty level, and shrinking population....
Using education data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 24/7 Wall St. identified the least educated metropolitan area in the United States.
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...
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis reveals that the city with the fewest people living below the poverty line is in Massachusetts.
Austin, Texas, ranked first in a new analysis of the most dynamic American college towns.
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...
A drought in Ethiopia in the 1980s is thought to have killed more than a million people.
Places where poverty is especially common the in United States are concentrated in the West, the Midwest and notably the South.
(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...
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...
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...
it is hard to peg a methodology for determining financial stress.  Some people make a great deal of money, but do not live within their means. Some people have modest incomes but are thrifty....
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...
The population in one county in North Dakota more than doubled from 2010 to 2020, due largely to the huge fracking boom.
The state with the most student debt is also among the poorest.