Uncle Sam has been given some good news: The vast majority of Americans still believe that you should never cheat on your taxes — or, at least, that’s what they tell the pollsters representing the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board.
Continue reading… “More Americans say cheat on your income taxes”
A survey of employers found a huge jump in U.S. employers saying they were having trouble filling open jobs.
There are 13 million people in the United States looking for work. It seems like anyone who wants to hire someone would have little difficulty doing so.
But many employers are saying otherwise.
Continue reading… “More than half of employers say they can’t find qualified workers”
Women express more interest in buying tablets, laptops and smartphones.
Two thousand consumers were recently surveyed about their buying habits with unexpected results. The survey found that women are embracing new technology and gadgets at a higher rate than men. The insight, provided by retailer HSN, has left men everywhere responding with a characteristic “Whuh?”
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Texting while driving increases.
Texting by drivers keeps increasing despite all the criticism and new legal bans. Texting and driving is increasing mostly among younger motorists.
Continue reading… “Despite bans, more drivers texting behind the wheel”
Forget the holiday party this year, employees want cash.
Companies shouldn’t bother planning to spend thousands of dollars for staff Christmas parties, even with open bars because most U.S. employees would prefer money.
Continue reading… “Employees prefer cash bonus to holiday party in 2011: Survey”
24 percent said they had ever been “harassed” by texting. That was up from about 14 percent in a survey of the same kids the year before.
More and more kids in the U.S. say they have been picked on via text messaging, while there has been little change in online harassment, researchers reported Monday.
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Yahoo! Finance conducted a new survey that shows Americans have a disturbing lack of hope and a frightening lack of retirement planning.
Continue reading… “‘American Dream’ lost according to 41% of Americans”
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.
11 percent of people own a tablet.
You are part of a small, but growing population if you own a tablet. A new Pew Research Center survey claims that 11 percent of adults now own a tablet of some sort, and reveals some interesting facts and trends related to tablet usage.
Continue reading… “Why tablet users don’t want to pay for news content”
There are more than 327 million wireless subscriptions in the U.S.
A new survey was released by CTIA yesterday with some interesting data on wireless subscribers in the U.S. The survey covers January 2011 through June 2011.
Continue reading… “Wireless subscribers outnumber people in the U.S.”
Single people exercise more.
Married couples exercise less than single people, according to a survey that suggests matrimony means living more in sickness than in health.
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73% of cellphone owners text.
Eighty-three percent of American adults own cell phones and 73% send and receive text messages. The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project asked those texters in a survey how they prefer to be contacted on their cell phone and 31% said they preferred texts to talking on the phone, while 53% said they preferred a voice call to a text message. Another 14% said the contact method they prefer depends on the situation.
Continue reading… “One third of Americans prefer texting to talking on the phone”
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