The average American is much better off now than four decades ago

JUST how bad have the past four decades been for ordinary Americans? One much-cited figure suggests they have been pretty bad. The Census Bureau estimates that for the median household, halfway along the distribution, income has barely grown in real terms since 1979. But a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a non-partisan […]

The odds that a gun will kill the average American may surprise you

Dave Mosher/Business Insider About 2 million people in the US marched for stricter gun control on Saturday. The protests were part of a “March for Our Lives” event organized in the wake of the Florida high school shooting in February that left 17 dead. Nearly 13,000 people in the US were murdered with firearms in […]

Casualty actress Charlotte Salt reveals her average weekend

She has previously starred in The Tudors and The Musketeers for the BBC, Sky’s Bedlam and the 2007 film Beowulf. Charlotte, 32, lives in Oxfordshire with her husband, former Casualty actor Oliver Coleman, and their one-year-old son, Leo. “I normally get weekends off from Casualty, so on Friday night I drive back from Cardiff to […]

Scarlet fever outbreak: Cases more than DOUBLE average – how to spot symptoms

Scarlet fever cases have almost hit 12,000 since the middle of September 2017, according to Public Health England (PHE). The average for the same period over the past five years is 4,480. The health watchdog has urged parents and patients to watch out for signs of infection as the number of cases continue to rise. […]

REVEALED: The shock number of mobile phone messages the average Briton gets each year

Britons now spend the equivalent of almost 22 full 24-hour days on average checking their messages, an average of more than 26 minutes every day. The survey found that the average UK adult receives 93 messages or notifications from social apps every day, the equivalent of 33,802 notifications a year. But those aged between 18 […]

5 Reasons Why the Chase Sapphire Preferred is the Best Card for the Average Traveler

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Average transaction prices climb to a record $36,270 in January

The automotive sector made a hash of the numbers last month, a mess of pluses and minuses clogging the transaction-price charts according to Kelley Blue Book. The overall industry rose one percent, even though buyers bought fewer cars and light vehicles in January 2018 vs 2017 using the selling-day adjusted rate. Due to January transaction […]

January blues: THIS is how much money the average Brit has by the end of the month

It means many workers struggle to survive what seems like the toughest financial month of the year. As Christmas bills hit doormats, festive cheer is replaced by rummaging purses and wallets in a hunt for spare change before pay day at the end of January.  Women fall short more so than men, having just £26.63 […]

The rarest new PUBG items show up once every 80 years, on average

Enlarge / It takes good money (or good luck) to look this good. It’s not a huge surprise that the latest test server update for the insanely popular PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds on PC expands the game’s free and paid loot crate system. Despite recent controversy over the practice, loot crates remain one of the most efficient […]