As inflation remains at the highest level in more than 40 years, millions of Americans are facing financial hardship due to rising consumer prices. According to a survey conducted by Gallup in August, the majority of U.S. adults now say that price incr…
While the hotter-than-expected inflation reading for August is a major setback in America’s fight against surging prices, it came at a time when optimism was slowly building among Americans. According to the latest Survey of Consumer Expectations, a mo…
Despite a 10.6 percent drop in gasoline prices, inflation showed little signs of cooling in August, as prices rose 0.1 percent compared to July and 8.3 percent compared to August 2021. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, increases in prices fo…
Adults in the United States are suffering in their lives at a record level. That’s according to the latest in a survey series from Gallup. The share of adults rating their lives poorly enough to be considered ‘suffering’, according to Gallup’s methodol…
U.S. President Joe Biden has said he will cancel up to $10,000 student in federal student loans fees for American borrowers earning under $125,000 a year. He will also forgive as much as $20,000 for low and middle income groups who have received Pell g…
Severe droughts are happening all around the world at the moment, highlighting how extreme weather patterns have become more frequent through climate change.As rivers and lakes are drying up and reservoirs grow emptier, droughts have revealed historica…
With the shift towards e-mobility and electric vehicles well underway in a number of key global markets, some manufacturers are more on top of the trend than others. As data from EV-Volumes.com shows, General Motors certainly can’t be accused of lackin…
New research has found that as many as four million people could be out of work in the U.S. due to long Covid, making up around 2.4 percent of the country’s working population. Similar conclusions about the severity of long Covid have been reached abro…
This infographic shows just how impactful online travel platforms really are. In the EU alone, online travel platforms directly contribute 15 billion euros to GDP. When indirect GDP contribution is taken into account, this value more than doubles to 23…
Ukraine celebrates its Independence Day today, while simultaneously defending itself from the Russian invasion. While it may seem like all eyes have been on the country since Putin launched the attack on February 24, six months down the line, a tail of…