CEO Pay Rose 11.4% to Another Record Last Year. Shareholders Did Even Better.

“In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes,” Benjamin Franklin famously noted in 1789. Had he been writing today, Franklin might have added ever-rising CEO pay to his list ... Read More

Low-income US adults left behind while rest of US experienced large declines in heart attack, stroke risk over 30 years

Brownell et al, Trends in Income Inequities in Cardiovascular Health Among US Adults, 1988–2018, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes (2024). DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.123.010111 ... Read More

Abortion rights across the US: we track where laws stand in every state

Abortion is now banned in 14 states, while two have banned the procedure past roughly six weeks of pregnancy The US supreme court ... abortion laws stand as of 10 April 2024. Read More

Overworked, underpaid, under attack: on the frontlines in a US election office

She is the seventh person since the fall of 2019. Steve Hahn ... a critical battleground state in the US presidential election. The political uncertainty only makes running an election more ... Read More

Fast-food companies seeing low-income diners pare orders

Runaway prices at US fast ... As prices rose, she switched to smaller hamburgers and stopped getting the drink. But after a year in which McDonald’s franchisees drove prices up about 10% ... Read More

Working-age death rate 2.5x higher in the US than other countries. Why?

Working-age US ... 2019. UK suicide mortality rates were generally low compared to those of other countries. While increases at younger ages in the 2010s brought the country closer to high-income ... Read More

US retail sales rose in March for the second-straight month

WASHINGTON -- Spending at US retailers rose in March for the ... Online sales jumped 2.7% in March, while specialty stores saw sales increase a solid 2.1%. Spending at restaurants and bars rose 0.4% ... Read More

US life expectancy improved in 2022, but child deaths rose, and drug overdoses were deadlier than ever

Many wealthy countries made more “substantial” recoveries in life expectancy than the US did. “Put simply, the fact that life expectancy in 2022 was lower than in 2019 means that Americans ... Read More

Parents in the US: are you happy with your child’s school lunch?

We’d like to know how you feel about your child’s school lunch – and how those lunches vary across the country Across the US, parents ... details are helpful so we can contact you for ... Read More

Countries with the lowest income tax rates

You may also like: Celebrities and their guilty pleasures Personal Income Tax Rate: 10% Corporate Income Tax Rate: 20% GDP Per Capita: US$34,480 Follow ... for individuals, while the standard ... Read More

Tell us: did you feel the earthquake in New York City and along the east coast?

We want to hear from people in the New York City metropolitan area and along the US east coast. Where were you and did you feel the shaking? How did it feel and what did you do? This Community ... Read More

US sees surge in measles cases as health experts plead for more vaccinations

This year’s total tally has now outpaced last year’s numbers, with 64 confirmed cases in 17 states so ... in 2019, when 1,274 patients got sick and 128 were hospitalized in the worst US ... Read More