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Nearly 9 million jobs lost during the COVID-19 pandemic have not been recovered. Jobless claims by week, a regularly used measure of people who have lost jobs, were well over a million a week...
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Tesla’s weak stock performance this year may be self-inflicted, but every damaging new revelation strengthens the opposition on Capitol Hill to the...
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Can’t help noticing that the two biggest cyber attacks this spring — Colonial Pipeline and now JBS, the Brazilian meat giant — have targeted the...
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights It's the official start of the Atlantic #hurricane season today.@NOAA predicts 60% chance of an above-normal season, with a likely range of 13 to 20 named...
A 24/7 Wall St. analysis shows that Utah is the state where income is rising fastest.
It has been said that demography is destiny. Whatever the truth of that, some countries have dramatically different demographics from others, and one key characteristic is age. With that in mind,...
A recent United Nations report found that the vast majority of people around the world live in a country where income inequality is worsening — the richest residents have an increasingly large...
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights Oil prices rose Thursday. With environmental activists still celebrating the historic hat trick of legal and shareholder victories Wednesday against...
It is little surprise that New York had the highest state income tax collections per capita in 2019.
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights In the wake of the Trump Administration’s last-ditch attempt to discourage environmental, social and governance investing in retirement plans last year,...
Although the percentage of U.S. adult smokers has declined in recent years, states still rake in enormous revenues from taxes on cigarette sales.
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights When I was a young foreign correspondent in the City of London in the ‘90s, I often marveled at how different that small “Square Mile” was from the...
By David Callaway, Callaway Climate Insights A more dramatic test of Wall Street’s commitment to financing a climate transition to renewable energy couldn’t have been devised this week, even by...
The state with the worst economy, based on economic and employment growth, the poverty rate and other factors, is Louisiana.
More than 70 million Americans have debt in collections, and certain parts of the country are more affected than others.