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While the poverty rate in the U.S. is 15.6%, in some towns it is nearly three times that. 24/7 Wall St. found there are 20 such places. As a matter of fact, the town with the highest rate is San...
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Alcohol poisoning and alcohol-related liver diseases are major contributors to the recently identified spike in mortality among middle aged, white Americans. Alcohol is the fourth leading cause of...
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Detroit is not a market full of expensive homes, so it unusual when one is for sale in the high seven figures hits the listings. The house at 17731 Hamilton Rd. is large at over 5,000 square feet,...
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Owners of odd houses frequently can’t find buyers. A home, made in a dome, which sits in St. Louis, built in 1977, has been off and on the market since 2007. Since then, through a series of...
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Although the economy has largely recovered from the worst effects of the recession, many more Americans live in poverty today than did during the crisis. Perhaps of greater concern is the fact that...
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The Detroit Land Authority continues to auction $1,000 houses, as the city has an estimated 40,000 houses that need to be torn down.
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It costs a small fortune to rent an apartment in San Francisco or New York, at least for middle-class families, according to Apartment List.
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The U.S. Census Bureau released its latest analysis of population change among the country's 371 metropolitan areas.
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Too many businesses have left. The population has become poorer and poorer. The tax base has been decimated and essential services crippled.
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INRIX claims that stronger economy and lower gas prices are among the contributors to more traffic on the roads around largest cities. It is an incident of how good news yields bad news.
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Does America's largest city have the highest quality water among large metros in the United States? The city seems to think so.
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The unemployment rate in the United States 4.8% in December. Five cities had unemployment rates much higher than, each well above 11%.
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As measured by presence of bacteria, the New York City subway system is the dirtiest in America by far.
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The dying city of Flint, Mich., has a 4.6% unemployment, which is rate below the national rate, but the data mask crippling problems.
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The U.S. unemployment rate hit 4.8% in December, down from 5.4% the year before. Job market improvements across the country point to a broad recovery from the Great Recession. The recovery, however,...
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