Reading Time: 2 minutes The United States faces a debt crisis as soon as July 2023, when the Treasury runs out of money to make payments on its debts. That’s according to a new Congressional Budget Office report released Wednesday. If the Treasury can’t Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The average retirement savings by age in the United States is pretty impressive. There are a number of factors that go into the equation. Your age, the size of your family and your financial situation all contribute. It’s always a Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Buying a home is a stressful and challenging time and, in a supercharged market like today’s, many buyers are getting burned out and may be resorting to dangerous strategies after losing multiple offers. Real estate agents throughout the past six Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Over half a million employees in the U.S. have weighed in to determine the 2021 Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For®. Based on confidential employee surveys gathered during the pandemic, workplaces that put employee health first—both physical and psychological—enjoyed record jumps Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute GoHealth, Inc., a leading health insurance marketplace and Medicare-focused digital health company, examines the role of Value-Based Care (VBC) in Medicare Advantage (MA) following its recent analysis revealing that, when considering health plan designs available in the marketplace, the VBC model in Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The newly enacted child tax credit, which will put an average of $221 per month into the pockets of families earning $150,000 or less with children, would make housing go from unaffordable to affordable for roughly half a million American families. The number of Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Millennials are a diverse group, with the youngest turning 25 this year and the oldest nearing 40. In this stage of their lives, financial decisions are increasingly impacted by the fear that they won’t be able to achieve material goals Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes QuoteWizard®, one of the nation’s leading online insurance marketplaces, published a report analyzing birth rates across the nation. It was found that the national average is the lowest it’s been in 35 years. The financial, economic, and social stresses of Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Electric vehicle sales are expected to hit their highest level on record in 2021, according to the car shopping experts at Edmunds. EV sales may reach 2.5% of retail sales in the US this year, an increase from last year’s Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute After a December decline, the number of jobs increased by only 49,000 in January, undershooting economists’ expectations. The employment level is still nearly 9 million jobs lower than pre-pandemic levels. In January, the number of jobs in the leisure and Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes The U.S. Chemical Production Regional Index (U.S. CPRI) rose by 0.6 percent in August following a 1.0 percent gain in July and a 1.4 percent decline in June, according to the American Chemistry Council (ACC). During August, chemical output expanded Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Aon plc reports: Aon plc, a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, today launches the latest edition of its monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes A new study by WalletHub shows: “Despite the fact that the U.S. is still struggling with the COVID-19 pandemic, new unemployment claims decreased week-over-week on August 17, and were still 85% below the peak during the COVID-19 pandemic. To help Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Kelley Blue Book reports: “The valuation analysts at Kelley Blue Book today reported the estimated average transaction price for a light vehicle in the United States was $38,378 in July 2020. New-vehicle prices increased $749 (up 2%) from July 2019, while decreasing $473 (down 1.2%) from last month. “‘While up from Read more…
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