Michael B. Sauter - Author for 24/7 Wall St.
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Based on the latest data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau, poverty is on the decline in the United States. In 2017, an estimated 13.4% of Americans lived below the poverty line, down from...
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Late last year the National Center for Health Statistics reported that U.S. life expectancy fell for the second year in a row. Americans born in 2016 can expect to live 78.6 years. Life expectancy is...
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About every minute, someone in the United States develops Alzheimer’s disease. By 2050, someone will develop dementia from the illness every 33 seconds. Alzheimer’s is the most common cause of...
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The U.S. economy has added over 1 million jobs already this year, and the unemployment rate has hovered around 4%, lower than it has been in over a decade. With the strongest job market in years,...
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Each year, American workers miss more than half a billion days due to illness and injury. While taking a sick day can sometimes not be avoided, a number of studies have shown that certain health...
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As auto sales hit their first slow period in years and margins are down, automakers must rely more on their reputations for quality and reliability to keep sales at current levels. According to the...
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Women have made big strides in their quest for gender equality, but there is much to do, as the rise of the #MeToo and Times Up movements indicate. Sexual harassment at work is but one of the issues...
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When a panel of 179 music experts chose “The Greatest Singers of All Time” for Rolling Stone in 2008, Aretha Franklin — who died of pancreatic cancer on August 16 at the age of 76 — took...
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The opioid epidemic is an ever-growing struggle: 72,000 Americans died from a drug overdose last year, the most on record, according to data released in August by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control...
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Drug overdoses killed 72,000 Americans last year, a 10% increase from 2016 and the highest death toll from drugs in U.S. history. These preliminary findings from the Centers for Disease Control and...
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