1 in 15 people are among America’s poorest.
The number of America’s poorest poor have climbed to a record high — 1 in 15 people — spread widely across metropolitan areas as the housing bust pushed many inner-city poor into suburbs and other outlying places and shriveled jobs and income.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Anyone driving down a typical stretch of highway in the U.S. will encounter an endless barrage of traffic signs designed to dampen our aggressiveness, forcing drivers to drive slower.
Continue reading… “The Enormous Power of the Slow Link”
Your phone company knows everything about you. They know where you live, what websites you visit, what apps you download, what videos you like to watch, and even where you are. Now, some have begun selling that valuable information to the highest bidder.
Consumers are spending more time on mobile apps than on the web for the first time, a new report claims.
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The gross national debt will reach 100% of the economy in November 2011.
A reprieve won this week for the Obama administrationfrom some particularly scary economic news that had been projected to occur around Halloween.
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Hackers are breaking into hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts every day.
Out of more than a billion logins to Facebook every 24 hours, 600,000 are impostors attempting to access users’ messages, photos and other personal information Facebook said.
The poll found that on average 38 was the age at which people felt most content with their lives.
A survey of adults of all ages found that, on average, people were most content with their life at 38.
“Manny” Travis McGowin
In 2009, Greg Carroll’s boss asked him to slash his 500-person staff by half, so Greg left his executive chef job. Since then, Carroll has done some catering, some consulting and some cooking in private homes. But full-time work has proven elusive.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Today, our best and brightest are drawn to elite colleges like Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Stanford, and Yale. As they attend these institutions they are surrounded by some of the most talented people in the world.
Continue reading… “Accomplishment-Based Education”
Charging people to deposit? Really?
It seems an odd problem to have, this “too much cash” thing. I don’t know that most of us can relate. But it seems that in times of economic insecurity, those who used to invest in stocks are simply holding their money in banks, and now bankers are inundated with money. So what’s the solution? Charge people to deposit. Or, at least some of the people, at some banks anyway…
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What is your Medication Adherence Score? Fair Isaac Co. thinks it knows what it is. They are the company that created the FICO credit score and they are branching out into new territory. Fair Isaac Co. is assembling disparate data in an effort to better understand a range of human behaviors.
Continue reading… “Going beyond credit scores, predicting personal behavior”
Best strategy for discovering lung tumors are the more costly CT scans.
Chest X-rays done annually didn’t significantly reduce the death rate from lung cancer in a study involving more than 150,000 patients that reflects the challenges of using early detection to save lives in the battle against malignancies.
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