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ThinkstockThe outlook for a long-sought federal fix of state sales taxation of online retailers looks dim after comments Wednesday by Robert Goodlatte, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives...
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Based on figures from the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 10 states with the highest obesity rates. Mississippi was the fattest state in America, with 35.4% of its...
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A report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says there were more than 2 million cases of fraud in 2013. Based on the FTC’s annual Consumer Sentinel Report, 24/7 Wall St. identified the 10...
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In each of the 50 states, income growth among the top 1% of earners rapidly outpaced that of the bottom 99%, according to a recent study. These are the 10 states where income inequality has soared.
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ThinkstockThe well-being of Americans hasn’t improved in the past six years, and it even declined slightly in 2013, according to a recent Gallup study. While national figures remained flat overall,...
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Thinkstock Florida has staged a big comeback after years of high unemployment and one of the worst housing busts in recent memory. The state’s tourism industry posted record high results for a...
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ThinkstockAccording to a recent report, children’s reading performances have improved in the past decade. While 70% of fourth graders had weak reading skills in 2003, that rate dropped to 66% in...
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California has come back from the Great Recession, buoyed by the rise of new technology companies and a modest recovery of its agricultural industry. Now a drought could set back much of the recovery...
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ThinkstockThe most conservative Americans live in the Plains States and the South, which probably comes as no surprise. And the liberals tend to live in the Northeast and on the West Coast, not...
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ThinkstockIn 2013, investors bought more than 156,000 homes, only to fix them up and quickly resell them for an average profit of $58,081. Home flipping became increasingly popular as the housing...
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ThinkstockThe vast majority of working Americans spend their time at one job, but that isn’t the case for everyone. In 2012, roughly 5% of the U.S. working population held more than one job at the...
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24/7 Wall St. reviewed the 11 best-scoring and 10 worst-scoring states in K-12 achievement, based on Editorial Projects in Education's 2014 Quality Counts report. These are the states with the best...
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Last week, after years of partisan fighting, Congress approved a two-year budget deal. Not included in the measure were any plans to extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC)...
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States with very small populations continue to have an unemployment edge over more populous states. The unemployment rate in North Dakota dropped to 2.6% last month.
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ThinkstockThe United States is far from being the healthiest country in the world. The country struggles with obesity and heart disease, and life expectancy is worse than in countries such as...
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