Thomas C. Frohlich - Author for 24/7 Wall St.
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Over the last 50 years, incomes in the United States have increased dramatically. Even after adjusting for inflation, per capita income more than doubled, from $14,700 in 1959 to $33,831 today. There...
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Close to 13 million children residing in the United States live in families with incomes below the federal poverty line, a threshold shown to underestimate the financial needs of American households....
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The U.S. population has grown significantly since 2000, from 281.4 million to just over 321 million, a 39.6 million increase, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. To...
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Based on the latest estimates from the U.S. government, there were 552,830 people experiencing homelessness across the United States in January 2018, essentially unchanged from the same time last...
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A range of factors affect the likelihood of living in poverty — the poverty threshold in the United States was defined in 2018 as a four-person household earning $25,000 or less. Where and when a...
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A recent report from Climate Central, an independent organization of scientists and journalists researching and reporting climate change, said rising sea levels caused by global warming could lift...
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Women all over the world have a longer life expectancy than men, according to the World Health Organization. It’s no different in the United States, where the average life expectancy at birth for...
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The first snow is just around the corner for most of the United States. Some may be dreading the onset of winter, while others may be wishing for a repeat of snowy wonderlands from their childhood....
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Blood tests evaluate how well organs are working and help identify abnormalities that almost always prompt further, more specific tests. In an interview with 24/7 Wall St., Dr. Keith Hoots, the...
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The number of people experiencing homelessness in the United States in 2018 increased for the second consecutive year. In 2017, homelessness had increased for the first time in seven years. On a...
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With an over 3,000-year written history, China is one of the world’s oldest civilizations. China was a global economic superpower as early as the period between 1100 and and the early 1800s....
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Cancer has overtaken heart disease as the leading cause of death in high-income countries, according to research published Tuesday. In the United States, cancer remains the second leading cause of...
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The Earth’s rainforests get smaller every year. The Amazonian rainforest, the largest on the planet, has lost approximately 305,000 square miles in the past 50 years, or 19% of the area it covered...
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Florida is in a state of emergency as Hurricane Dorian, a Category 4 storm, bears down on the eastern coast of the state. On its current path, Dorian could make landfall near West Palm Beach some...
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