5 trends driving the future of work
December 19th, 2011Summary: From legions of independent consultants to cities dotted with coworking facilities, the future of work is virtual, online and global.
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Top 1 percent: How much do they earn?
November 30th, 2011By Kay Bell • Bankrate.com Highlights
To make the top 1 percent, a household must have AGI of $343,927 or more. The top 1 percent contributed about 37 percent of the taxes paid in 2009. Roughly 44 percent of New York City residents made the top 1 percent in 2007. It’s usually considered impolite to ask how much money someone makes, but that question is at the forefront of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Protesters announce they are among the 99 percent of income earners who aren’t getting the financial and tax benefits the top 1 percent receives. So just how much do you have to earn to be part of the elite 1 percent? That depends on whose figures you use. Based on 2009 tax year filing data, the Internal Revenue Service says an adjusted gross income, or AGI, of $343,927 or more will put you in the top 1 percent of taxpayers. How much must you make to be in the top 50 percent of U.S. earners? Source: IRS, Statistics of Income Division, July 2011 The income thresholds are for the amount of AGI on a return, not per taxpayer. Read the rest of this entry »
Cupcakes may be addictive, just like cocaine.
November 7th, 2011HEALTH
Soda, fatty foods may spur addiction
STUDIES SHOW CHANGES IN BRAIN
By Robert Langreth and Duane D. Stanford Bloomberg News
Cupcakes may be addictive, just like cocaine.
A growing body of medical research at leading universities and government laboratories suggests that processed foods and sugary drinks made by the likes of PepsiCo Inc. and Kraft Foods Inc. aren’t simply unhealthy. They can hijack the brain in ways that resemble addictions to cocaine, nicotine and other drugs.
“The data is so overwhelming the field has to accept it,” said Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “We are finding tremendous overlap between drugs in the brain and food in the brain.” Read the rest of this entry »
People Who Volunteer Live Longer, Study Suggests
September 20th, 2011People who volunteer for selfless reasons, such as helping others, live longer than those who don’t lend a helping hand, a new study shows. However, those who volunteer for more self-centered reasons do not reap the same life-extending benefits.
“This could mean that people who volunteer with other people as their main motivation may be buffered from potential stressors associated with volunteering, such as time constraints and lack of pay,” study researcher Sara Konrath of the University of Michigan said in a statement. Read the rest of this entry »
GOP field bashes EPA as a bloated job killer
August 18th, 2011By John M. Broder New York Times
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency is emerging as a favorite target of the Republican presidential candidates, who portray it as the very symbol of a heavy-handed regulatory agenda imposed by the Obama administration that they say is strangling the economy.
Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota wants to padlock the EPA’s doors, as does former Speaker Newt Gingrich. Gov. Rick Perry of Texas wants to impose an immediate moratorium on all environmental regulation.
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas wants environmental disputes settled by the states or the courts. Herman Cain, a businessman, wants to put many environmental regulations in the hands of an independent commission that includes oil and gas executives. Jon Huntsman, the former Utah governor, thinks most new environmental regulations should be shelved until the economy improves.
Only Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, has a kind word for the EPA, and that is qualified by his opposition to the agency’s proposed regulation of carbon dioxide and other gases that contribute to global warming. Read the rest of this entry »
Wine Matches Beer in U.S. Drinkers’ Preferences This Year
July 28th, 2011Preference for beer drops most among 18- to 34-year-olds
by Lydia Saad
PRINCETON, NJ — For only the second time in two decades, wine ties beer as the top choice when U.S. drinkers are asked whether they most often drink liquor, wine, or beer. Gallup now finds nearly as many U.S. drinkers naming wine (35%) as beer (36%), while liquor still registers a distant third at 23%.
The 36% of U.S. drinkers favoring beer in Gallup’s July 7-10 poll ties for the lowest Gallup has recorded for the popular beverage since initiating this measure in 1992. The other low reading came in 2005, at the same time Americans’ preference for wine temporarily surged to 39%. Beer regained a solid lead at the top spot, until this year. Read the rest of this entry »
You Cannot Believe that We are All Born into Equality
July 26th, 2011Wealth gap worsens for minorities, census says
By Hope Yen Associated Press
WASHINGTON – The wealth gaps between whites and minorities have grown to their widest levels in a quarter-century. The recession and uneven recovery have erased decades of minority gains, leaving whites on average with 20 times the net worth of blacks and 18 times that of Latinos, according to an analysis of new census data. The analysis shows the racial and ethnic impact of the economic meltdown, which ravaged housing values and sent unemployment soaring. It offers the most direct government evidence yet of the disparity between predominantly younger minorities whose main asset is their home and older whites who are more likely to have 401(k) retirement accounts or other stock holdings. Read the rest of this entry »
Boomers are FAT!
July 23rd, 2011Boomers are fattest group, poll suggests
By Lauran Neergaard, Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Baby boomers say their biggest health fear is cancer. Given their waistlines, heart disease and diabetes should be atop that list, too.
Boomers are more obese than other generations, a new poll finds, setting them up for unhealthy senior years. And for all the talk of “60 is the new 50” and active aging, even those who aren’t obese need to do more to stay fit, according to the Associated Press-LifeGoesStrong .com poll. Read the rest of this entry »
What are we working for?
July 21st, 2011July 20, 2011
In U.S., 3 in 10 Working Adults Are Strapped for Time
Lack of time related to lower life satisfaction, more stress, and more money
by Magali Rheault
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite the swirl of daily family and professional obligations, most working Americans tell Gallup they have enough time to get done what they need to do. However, 28% report they do not, compared with 20% of non-working adults who say the same.
