New research shows that every $50,000 of income lowers a person’s risk of death by five percent. Money may not buy happiness, but it could buy you a longer life. New research... Read more »
The current COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent stay-at-home and social distancing directives might have played a major role in romance scams losses reaching record levels in 2020, the US Federal Trade Commission... Read more »
The old saying goes “money can’t buy happiness,” but a new study finds that’s not exactly true. Although previous studies find there’s a limit to how much a person’s income impacts their... Read more »
The Food and Drug Administration authorized BioNTech and Pfizer Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine Friday evening, which will make it the first vaccine to reach Americans during the coronavirus pandemic. MarketWatch reports: “The FDA’s authorization for emergency... Read more »
Patterns of missing credit card and loan payments could be an early indicator of dementia years before diagnosis, a new study says. CNN Health reports: The study, published Monday in the medical journal JAMA, looked... Read more »
As society gets richer, people chase the wrong things. One of the greatest paradoxes in American life is that while, on average, existence has gotten more comfortable over time, happiness has fallen.... Read more »
Nine in 10 Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in their personal life, a new high in Gallup's four-decade trend. The latest figure bests the previous high of 88%... Read more »
The Donald Trump administration declared the coronavirus outbreak to be a public health emergency in the United States on Friday, setting quarantines of Americans who have recently been to certain parts of China. USA Today... Read more »
The world’s richest 2,153 people controlled more money than the poorest 4.6 billion combined in 2019, while unpaid or underpaid work by women and girls adds three times more to the global... Read more »
Rapid growth in Vietnam and its Southeast Asian neighbors has created a situation that would have been unthinkable in the past: Aging American boomers are living a lifestyle reminiscent of Florida, Nevada... Read more »
