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ThinkstockThe reputation of college has fallen on hard times. A four-year education can cost $100,000 and leave graduates with burdensome loans. Many college graduates have found that, even with...
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Americans’ confidence in the economy last week fell the most since the week of September 15, 2008, when Lehman Brothers collapsed and set off the global economic crisis. The Gallup economic...
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ThinkstockAfter posting a five-year high in July, consumer spending pulled back in September, according to the latest Gallup self-reporting survey on Americans’ spending habits. The August daily...
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ThinkstockU.S. economic confidence had been declining throughout the month of September as a federal government shutdown loomed. From a reading of -13 at the end of August the index fell to -24 on...
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ThinkstockIn a tracking survey that estimates the percentage of the U.S. population employed at least 30 hours a week, Gallup reports that the payroll to population (P2P) employment rate fell from...
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Wikimedia CommonsAmerican’s confidence in the U.S. economy posted a five-year high in May of -7 on Gallup’s economic confidence index. Since then, it has been all downhill, to a September reading...
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ThinkstockAmong the most common comments about the new Census Bureau data on income, poverty and insurance coverage is that the rich have gotten richer and, at best, the middle and lower classes have...
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ThinkstockHowever rich some portion of America has become, there is another slice that cannot afford to buy food. If 1% of people in the United States control an extraordinary amount of the wealth,...
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ThinkstockPerhaps the trend to question the value of graduate degrees, which even has spilled over to opinions that some college degrees have no value, has gotten a big boost of support. A new Gallup...
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ThinkstockAn estimated 14.5 million American households had difficulty providing enough food for their families last year, according to a recent government report. In 7 million of those homes, at...
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ThinkstockThe recession may have ended almost three years ago, but many American workers fell it was only yesterday when the jobless rate rose into double digits and the economy was shedding more...
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ThinkstockAs retail and fast-food workers strike across 60 cities as a means to get their employers to raise wages as high as $15 an hour, most Americans support the labor union system, a fact that...
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thinkstockIt may be that the negative images of banks and the federal government continue to persist in the minds of Americans because of the credit crisis. Or, perhaps people believe that the...
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thinkstockPresident Obama cannot run for office again, at least not for the presidency. So, the effects of his approval ratings are academic. However, he may care about how he is considered in his...
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courtesy of the White HouseThe economy may be getting better, albeit at a slow pace. Americans do not seem to believe the improvement is fast enough or good enough, at least insofar as any role the...
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