Major food companies are making hefty profits meeting the increased demand in the U.S. for snacks that include Doritos, Cheetos, and other popular chips. A CNN Business report found that snack sales in the U.S. are expected to reach $170 billion in sales in the next few years while about 42 percent of Americans are...
The cost of raising a single child to high school graduation will cost you $300,000—or the price of a 2022 Ferrari F8 Spider—due, in part, to surging inflation, according to a recent estimate from the Brookings Institution. The Wall Street Journal reported that the study focused on middle-income families who had a child in 2015. The...
UNITED KINGDOM: All of London’s Underground and Overground train lines were suspended Friday after about 10,000 employees for the city’s transportation network protested over their wages and a number of cost-cutting efforts that have been proposed by Transport for London (TfL). Many of these employees have been critical of TfL for not keeping up with...
Gerald Celente has said COVID-19 lockdowns did more than destroy economies; he said they destroyed the human spirit. Polls are now emerging that show optimism in the U.S. is becoming almost as rare as Russian gas in Europe. About 75 percent of Americans said they believe the U.S. is headed in the wrong direction, and...
A newly released Pew Research poll found more teenagers than ever are hooked on social media and would find it difficult to detach themselves from these platforms. About 50 percent of teenagers surveyed in the U.S. said in the survey that they are almost constantly online. The number has more than doubled since 2015, when...
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Ariz., did all she could to protect a tax loophole for private equity billionaires that allow them to pay a far less tax rate than the workers of Slavelandia. Sinema received about $2.3 million from securities and investment executives since 2017 and was a crucial vote for President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction...
Americans, who are forced to deal with ballooning inflation, have turned to food banks to feed their families. But these organizations are also struggling to keep up with demand due to soaring food prices and a fundraising slowdown. Last month 25 million adult Americans said they did not have enough to eat in the previous...
A newly released Pew Research Poll confirmed what most of us have already known to be true: the political divide in the U.S. is worsening, with more Republicans and Democrats looking at each other with contempt. In 2016, the year Donald Trump was elected president, about 47 percent of Republicans polled said they found Democrats...
Workers at a Minneapolis Trader Joe’s last week voted in favor of unionizing, becoming the grocery chain’s second location out of about 530 to unionize within weeks. The Trader Joe’s is located in downtown Minneapolis. Workers there voted 55-5 in favor of unionizing. Sarah Beth Ryther, a union organizer and crew member at the store,...
Swedish researchers who have been studying so-called “forever chemicals” for over a decade released a study earlier this month that said there is no longer rainwater on Earth that is safe to drink according to contamination guidelines. The scientists at the University of Stockholm published the study on 2 August in the journal Environmental Science...