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Americans Charging Medical Expenses On Credit Cards

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Healthcare Premiums, Insurance, Money News, Medical Credit Card Debt, Survey, Credit Card Debt, Medical Expenses, Demos Study, Healthcare Costs, Money News

Are you carrying debt because of doctor's bills or medicine costs? If so, you're not alone. Many low-and middle-income Americans are paying for med...

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Building American Support for Global Health Spending

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: International Development, Global Fund, Who, International Aid Spending, Survey, Global Health, USA, US, Health Care, International Aid, Kaiser Family Foundation, Healthcare, Health Spending, Kff, Impact News

The reality of foreign aid spending is vastly different than its perception. Despite representing a small sliver of the federal budget, foreign aid does a lot of good.

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The Top 9 Things Employers Value In Recent Grads

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Experience Inc., Hiring Trends, Liberal Arts Majors, Internships, Engineering Majors, Finding a Job, Millenials, Employers, Job Hunting, Recent Graduates, Survey, Millennial Branding, Slidepollajax, College Graduates, College News

A new survey holds some good news for liberal arts majors. It has certainly been said that a liberal arts degree is impractical for this economic c...

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REPORT: Americans Clueless As To How Many People Living In Poverty

Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Video, Poverty, Perceptions of Poverty, Homelessness, Homeless Shelter, Charity, Financial Assistance, Donating to Charity, Survey, Salvation Army, Impact News

By Mark Hrywna, The NonProfit Times Americans don’t quite have an accurate picture of what poverty in the United States looks like, at least acco...

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Holy Grails! The 20 Best Internships (And The Dollars They Pay)

Posted 05.04.2012

Who says internships are nothing more than unpaid slave labor? A new report from Glassdoor details 20 of their highest rated companies which not on...

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Shocking Results In New Survey On Student Loan Debt

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: College Loan Survey, College Loans, Student Debt, Paying for College, Couponcabin, College Debt Survey, College Loan News, Student Loan News, Majoring in Debt, Survey, Harris Interactive, Student Loan Debt, Cost of College, College News

There's a good chance college graduates will still be more than $20,000 in student loan debt by the time they reach the age of 45. Four-in-ten adul...

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Charity Study: Most People Think OTHERS Should Give More

Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Ron Sellers, Giving to Charity, Charity, Middle Class, Donating to Charity, Survey, Grey Matter Research, Arizona, Donations, Giving, Video, Impact News

By Mark Hrywna, The NonProfit Times Just how much money does someone need to earn each year to be considered one of “those people who have a lot ...

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Semana Latina: How Far Have Judeo-Latino Relations Progressed?

Gabriel Lerner | Posted 04.21.2012

Read More: Latinos, Jewish Identity, Jews, Survey, Latino Culture, American Jews, Latino Identity, Latino Voices News

For us Latinos, the organized Jewish community has been an important ally in the quest for an immigration reform. And for us Jews, the alliance with the Latino community and support of its advancement keeps us in the right side of history.

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Ask the Readers: Which Credit Cards Do You Use?

J.D. Roth | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Personal Finance, Credit Cards, Debt, Survey, Money, Rewards Card, Credit Card Debt, Money News

What I really want to know is how you use credit cards. Which credit card(s) do you use? Why do you use it? How, when, and where do you use it? Do you have personal rules for credit card use? Have you ever been in credit card debt? How do you steer clear of that now?

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Americans Say We're Still In A Recession

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Video, Unemployment Rate, Economic Recession, Business News, Low Paying Jobs, Jobs, Public Opinion, Survey, Credit Card Debt, Consumer Spending, Recession, Business News

We may not technically be in a recession anymore, but the vast majority of Americans say they aren't feeling the recovery. More than 75 percent of...

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Americans Say Others Not Paying Fair Share Of Taxes

The Huffington Post | Khadeeja Safdar | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Business News, Google, Barack Obama Taxes, Survey, Corporate Tax Reform, Tax Reform, Facebook, Corporate Tax Rate, Business News

It's not that Americans just don't like paying taxes. They also really don't approve of the U.S. system as a whole, according to a recent survey. ...

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Grandparents Play Key Role In Family Life: Survey

Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Video, Grandchildren, Aarp, AARP Survey, Survey, Grandparent Roles, Grandparents, Grandparenting, Slidepollajax, Fifty News

A new study by the AARP finds 90 percent of grandparents feel they are an important part of their grandchildren's lives. Many provide support with edu...

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The Fact of the Matter

Darina Kagan | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Beliefs, Survey, Belief, Random Sample, Culture News

In a constantly expanding technological and scientific society, "researchers" and "scientists" are responsible for delivering facts to reassure people that everything is OK. But why are we so quick to believe them?

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SURVEY: How SXSW Attendees Give Back

Posted 03.20.2012

Read More: Video, Charity, SXSW 2012, Donating to Charity, Social Services, Generation X, Survey, Online Giving, Sxsw, Generation Y, Convio, Children's Charities, Impact News

The thousands of people who thronged to Austin for South by Southwest apparently share more in common than a love for music, tech and film. An overwhe...

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9 Out of 10 Americans Despise Being Asked Survey Questions

Mark C. Miller | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Pollsters, Survey, Surveys, Pollster, Political Satire, Political Humor, Satire, Political Polls, Comedy News

"I mean, asking survey questions is our bread and butter. I always felt folks enjoyed giving their opinions about all sorts of things. But now, to find out that they hate what we do -- well, as you might think, it's depressing."

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Infographic: What News Sources Do People Trust?

Craig Newmark | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Internet, Social Media, Newspapers, Factchecking, Voters, Survey, News, Infographic, Voting, Media News

Likely voters are looking for news they can trust, but are torn about where they can find it. I'm not in the news business and I won't tell anybody how to do their job, but I am a news consumer and I'd like to know I can trust the news I'm getting.

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Economists Predict Election Day Unemployment Rate

AP | By PAUL WISEMAN and DEREK KRAVITZ | Posted 02.26.2012

Read More: Eurozone, Unemployment Rate, Elections 2012, Survey, Eurozone Debt Crisis, Joblessness, European Central Bank, Barack Obama, European Debt Crisis, Video, Jobless Rate, Unemployment, Gdp, Hiring, Economists, Europe, Job Creation, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. economy will grow faster in 2012 – if it isn't knocked off track by upheavals in Europe, according to an Associated Press...

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Shoppers Love Target Against All Odds? (SURVEY)

The Huffington Post | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Walmart, Target Website Crash, Retail News, Black Friday Shopping, Taret Petition, Black Friday, Target, Survey, Black-Friday-Petition, Business News

Even with almost 200,000 petitioners rallying against its early Black Friday opening, and toy prices 4.7 percent higher than Walmart's, Target has tak...

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Public Attitudes on the Unfolding Crisis at Penn State

Scott Widmeyer | Posted 01.22.2012

Read More: Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal, Penn State, Big Money, Research, Penn State Scandal, College Athletics, Survey, Media, Higher Education, College News

Two-thirds of the American public thought the manner in which Penn State handled the recent child sexual abuse controversy was similar to how the Catholic Church handled its child sexual abuse controversies.

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More People Expecting Not To Retire Until Their 80s: Survey

AP | By DAVID PITT | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: 401(K), Video, Social Security, Retirement, Retirement Plan, Survey, Medicare, Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement and Trust, Savings, Wells Fargo & Co, Business News

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Workers are growing to accept the idea that they may be working long after they've become eligible for senior discounts. Yet rathe...

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WATCH: You'll Never Guess The New Retirement Age

AOL Jobs | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Polls, Savings, Work, 401k, Retirement, Harris Interactive, Employment, Survey, Middleclass, American, Wells Fargo, Retirement Savings, Fifty News

The idea of retiring at age 65 is no longer a reality to many Americans, with many anticipating that they will have to work another 15 years -- to age...

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Americans Want Companies To Be More Public-Spirited: Poll

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 11.16.2011

Americans would like businesses to start thinking about more than just the bottom line. Most people say that major companies care most about their ...

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Waiting For Cable Guys Costs America BILLIONS

The Huffington Post | Jason O. Gilbert | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Internet, Cable, Installation, Cable Guys, Survey, Zogby, Tv, Waiting for Cable, Cable Companies, Toa Technologies, Wait for Cable, Technology News

Waiting for the cable guy isn't just frustrating, it is also extremely expensive: A new survey has found that waiting longer than usual for in-home se...

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Revealing NEA Study On The Artist's Lifestyle

Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Census, Artist Salary, Artist Survey, Nea Study, Artist Research, Survey, Nea, Median Salary Artist, National Endowment for the Arts, Arts News

There was a time when becoming an artist meant devoting yourself to a starving, bohemian lifestyle, sleeping on a futon and burning your rejected work...

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Survey Finds Significant Lack of Confidence In Healthcare System

Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Aging, Senior Living, Revera, Senior Care, Canada Health Care, Health Care Services, Health Post50, Elder Care, Survey, Jeffrey Lozon, Health Care, Leger Marketing, Canada, Fifty News

The outlook of growing older in the current economic climate continues to look bleak, as the struggles of boomers' elderly parents only provide a gloo...

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