The Hill

Newly released data from a Charles Schwab survey found a 12 percent spike in the amount of money Americans think people must have “to be considered wealthy,” up $300,000 from last year. The data, released in a press release Thursday, found Americans saying that “it takes” an average net worth of $2.5 million “to be…

How rich is rich? Survey shows 12 percent spike in what Americans consider ‘wealthy’

Entrepreneur

A new survey found sharp contrasts between what Gen Z, millennials, Gen X and Baby Boomers want to do when traveling.

Gen Z and Millennials No Longer Want to Relax on Vacation — Here's What They're Looking for Instead

The average Social Security retiree receives $1,918.28 per month in Social Security as of June 2024. Your benefits may be lower if you didn't earn as much as most Americans or if you claimed benefits early. Your benefits might beat the average if you worked longer than most people or...

Are Your Social Security Benefits Higher or Lower Than the Average American's?

Upworthy

A funny thing happens when you get older: you have to listen to younger people recall historical moments that you lived through, but they didn’t. It gets worse when some of these young whipper-snappers think they know more about the event than those alive when it happened.
Gen Xers, those born approximately between 1965 and 1980, lived through many pivotal moments in history, including the end of the Vietnam War, the Challenger disaster, the War on Terror, the AIDS epidemic, the contested 2000 election, 9/11, the election of Barack Obama, the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, the death of Kurt Cobain and the OJ Simpson murder trial.
So, it’s funny for people in their 40s and 50s to be lectured by a Gen Zer (those born between 1997 and 2012) about moments they saw firsthand. A few years back, an X user named SameOldStay brought the issue to the attention of many Gen Xers in a viral tweet.

Gen Xers share the 13 times 'extremely wrong' Gen Zers tried to lecture them about history

Business Insider

Kamala Harris is set to announce her economic agenda, which includes several housing proposals, during a Friday rally in North Carolina.

Harris to propose an economic plan that includes giving some first-time homebuyers up to $25k in down-payment support

MarketRealist

The minimum wage today is not enough for workers to make rent.

Realtor brilliantly explains the differences between today’s salaries and housing compared to 1980s

Colorado State

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David Heitz

A bill quietly introduced this spring in the Colorado legislature to decriminalize the possession of drug paraphernalia obtained by harm reductionists has become law. As low-key as the legislation was introduced, the bill was signed into law without fanfare June 6. It garnered little to no media attention.

Colorado legalizes needles, pipes for meth and crack if obtained by harm reduction group

The analysis in this report is based on 4,527 registered voters who responded to two different American Trends Panel (ATP) surveys. Wave 146 was conducted April 8-14, 2024, and Wave 151 was conducted Aug. 5-11, 2024. The full methodology for Wave 146 can be found here. The full methodology for Wave 151 can be found here.

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NewsNinja

A lady is cautioning others about purchasing budget earrings from Amazon, Shein, and H&M, after she experienced keloid formations on her earlobes due to wearing them. On a TikTok post that has garnered more than 334,000 likes, Sailor Rozema (@sailor.rozema), a content creator, shares a warning with her community of "dangly earring girls": the inexpensive jewelry found in fast fashion can have negative impacts on your well-being.

‘I’ll never be wearing earrings for the rest of my life’: Customer warns against buying from Shein

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Jacksonville Today

Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said he will consider more DUI patrols if voters legalize recreational marijuana use in Florida. Voters will consider Amendment 3 in November. It would allow adults 21 or older to possess, purchase or use marijuana products and marijuana accessories for non-medical purposes.

More DUI patrols possible if marijuana issue passes

The US Sun

IF you're one of the 50 million Americans who use a popular mobile payment app, you may be entitled to a payment from a $15 million settlement. Cash App is facing a class action lawsuit regarding data breaches between 2022 and 2023. The suit alleges that Cash App failed to...

Americans can claim up to $2,500 from $15 million mobile payment service settlement – you must meet three criteria

FinanceBuzz

We researched the colleges that highly paid tech graduates went to and came up with a list of the top colleges producing the highest-paid tech graduates.

Graduates From These 16 Colleges Have the Highest-Paying Tech Salaries

Military.com

Over the years, the Employee Benefit Research Institute's annual Retirement Confidence Survey has provided a lot of great material for my articles. The survey has consistently provided useful retirement insights from America's workers and retirees.And this year's iteration is unique: For the first time, the survey incorporated an outsized population from the military community, both currently serving and veterans. When I heard about it, I couldn't wait to dig in. I wasn't disappointed, and I think the results confirmed what I have long believed: Military service is a differentiator -- a financial differentiator.Here are four themes that stuck out to...

New Survey Confirms Military Service Is a Financial Differentiator

Labor Day is approaching and a majority of Americans feel like their hard work doesn’t mean much. According to a new survey from the personal finance company WalletHub, 74% of people think inflation is erasing their hard work. And nearly two in three Americans say inflation is affecting their Labor Day plans.

Most Americans think inflation erases their hard work, survey says

When asked about the leader of their country, people around the world are generally much more likely to say it is important to have someone who stands up for people with their religious beliefs than to say the leader needs to have strong religious beliefs of their own or to have the same beliefs as they do.

Many around the globe say it’s important their leader stands up for people’s religious beliefs

Money

Americans are growing increasingly wary of taking out student loans to pay for college — and that includes parents. Most of them now define an affordable college degree as one that doesn’t leave their kids with student loan debt. When the consulting firm EAB, formerly known as the...

An 'Affordable' College Degree Now Means Not Going Into Debt, According to Parents

A Gen Xer shares how making six figures secretly working multiple remote jobs has helped him feel financially secure for the first time.

A Gen Xer who makes $150,000 secretly working multiple remote jobs says 100-hour weeks are worth it to ensure his family is financially secure

New York Post

Cigarette smoking among Americans has plummeted to an all-time low, with only 11 percent of U.S. adults saying they have smoked cigarettes in the past week, according to a new Gallup poll. 

It’s even less popular with Gen Z — with just 6% of people under 30 saying that they light up. 

Gallup’s most recent poll, conducted July 1 to 21, shows a sharp decline in rates of cigarette smoking among American adults compared to their first poll of its kind in 1944 — when 41 percent of adults said they smoked. 



How even just a couple of cigarettes before...

Cigarette smoking plummets to all-time low: Just 11% of US adults say they’ve lit up recently

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GOBankingRates

Membership in unions varies from state to state across the country. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics issued a report on union membership in 2023 that included a comparison of key economic factors....

The 10 States With the Most Union Members — How Do They Compare to States With the Fewest?

Older folks have pilloried millennials as the ultimate generation of slackers, but it appears that the younger set is having the last laugh. Seemingly out of nowhere, millennials have risen to a level of financial security that in some ways eclipses what their baby boomer and Generation X forebears accomplished, according to a recent report in The Wall Street Journal. The newspaper reports:

Millennials Are Suddenly Loaded: Here’s How They Did It

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Methodology: Teens and parents survey

The analysis in this report is based on a self-administered web survey conducted from Sept. 26 to Oct. 23, 2023, among a sample of 1,453 dyads,...

Methodology: Teens and parents survey

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