71.5% of Consumers Sticking to Cash this Holiday Season
walletpop.com — About 71.5% of consumers will use cash, checks or debit cards this holiday season versus 28.3% who plan to use credit cards, which is about a 10% decrease from last year and a clear sign that consumers are weaning themselves away from credit cards. (Submitted by jerryjamesstone) More...
Really want to save the world? Quit having kids
walletpop.com — It isn't SUVs and drafty windows that are ruining the planet. We have met the enemy and it is our children. We talk a lot about how we need to save the planet for our children, but the best way to do that is to not have children: or at least have fewer or, even better, adopt already existing ones. (Submitted by Shitokki) More...
Massachusetts tops for health insurance plans
walletpop.com — Latest rankings by U.S. News show that four of the top ten commercial health plans offered were available in Massachusetts, the only state that currently mandates that all of its residents buy health insurance. The state has done so since 2008. (Submitted by BeShirtHappy) More...
Men are quick, women take their time
walletpop.com — For women, it's about emotion. Men? Size, of course. No, we're not talking about that. We're talking about home buying. And the male-female approach to that activity is about as similar as football and crocheting. (Submitted by BeShirtHappy) More...
Social network Tagged found guilty of abusing user data
walletpop.com — The state of Texas has reached an agreement with social networking site Tagged for tricking users into providing access to their address books. As part of the agreement Tagged has to pay $250,000, which includes the cost of the state's investigation. (Submitted by jerryjamesstone) More...
Private college presidents' pay rose 6.5% in 2008
walletpop.com — Even as endowments tanked, employees were laid off, and tuition bills were hiked in the face of decimated 401(k)s and home values, the presidents of the "top" (whatever that means) private college and universities in the United States still managed to take home 6.5% more cash in 2008 than they did in 2007. (Submitted by avizaaj) More...
Recession tales: The workplace is changing forever
walletpop.com — When the 15 million unemployed Americans do find jobs again, they'll return to a workplace that is likely to have grown accustomed to less pay for more work, or at least working less hours in a week. The raises that were once part of an annual employee review, if not entirely gone, will take years to get back to where they were before the recession (Submitted by louiebaur) More...
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