Thanksgiving is Thursday, and apparently 67% of Thanksgiving Day meals occur at the eaters home. The other 33% of meals occur at a relative or friends house, restaurant or non-commercials foodservice outlet, like a long term care home, per the…
Author: Anne Whitaker, Editor
Worry About Catching COVID-19 Lowest since June 2021
Only 28% of Americans say they are “very” or “somewhat worried” they will catch COVID-19. The lowest Gallup has recorded since the summer of 2021. The finding from the Oct 11-19 COVID-19 probability-based web panel survey come as a new…
Recalled, Fake Toys Still Sold Online
The 37th annual “Trouble in Toyland” toy safety report by Denver-based US public Interest Research Group (PIRG) warned parents doing their holiday shopping to carefully examine any toys before they buy them because recalled and counterfeit toys are being sold…
Girls Take Lessons, Jon Clubs More Often Than Boys But Boys Play More Sports
Children are engaging in more extracurricular activities like lessons and sports than they did more than two decades ago, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. A Child’s Day: Historical Tables and Figures tracks children’s involvement in extracurricular activities by sex and…
U.S Men’s Soccer Team Headed to 2022 World Cup on Qatar
NEXT WORLD CUP IN 2026 TO BE HOSTED BY CANADA, MEXICO AND UNITED STATES Soccer madness will grip the planet from November 20 to December 18 after 206 of 227 of the world’s countries fought to qualify for the World…
68% of Americans support the legalization of marijuana, according to a new poll by Gallup. In 1969 when Gallup first started asking Americans about their views of legalizing the substance just 12% were in favor. By 2000 it had reached…
Americans Divided on a Divided Congress
A poll by YouGov conducted in the days following the 2022 Midterm General Election finds that Americans are split on if they think a divided congress would be a good or bad thing. Many expected this to happen by November…
Election Day in the United States is tomorrow (November 8) and a new Economist/YouGov poll finds that both Democrats and Republicans are worried about it. Democrats are worried about potential of voter intimidation or the spreading of COVID-19 with in-person…
Thanksgiving Dinners Back On After Pandemic Pause
ButcherBox, a subscriptions service focused on meats, recently conducted a study that revealed 32% of Americans expect their Thanksgiving gatherings to be larger this year than last. Nearly 30% of respondents said they will be hosting 10-19 people this year.…
Wealth and Inequality by Household Type in the U.S.
Wealth inequalities persisted in 2019, according to the latest Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) data released in October 2021. Wealth is the value of assets owned minus the liabilities (debts) owed. As described in a previous report on household wealth in 2017,…