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You may need to rethink where you’re grabbing your grub. A new analysis by Consumer Reports has determined the most and least expensive U.S. supermarkets, on average, and upscale behemoth Whole Foods Market topped the list of the priciest — with costs nearly 40% higher than what a consumer would pay at big-box retailer Walmart, […]
Drazen_ | E+ | Getty Images A version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox. Over the next 25 years, more than $120 trillion in wealth will be passed down to inheritors, […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Fewer Americans Are Reading for Fun Drawing on data from the American Time Use Survey, researchers at University […]
Hue knew? Nearly one in five US packaged foods and drinks contain synthetic food dyes, according to a startling new study of 40,000 grocery items. The findings come amid a push by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to eliminate petroleum-based food colorings from the nation’s food supply. Researchers analyzed the ingredients […]
In 2023, the Winooski River in Vermont spilled its banks, kissing the green truss bridge that spanned it. River water poured onto the marble floors of the State House. Up to nine inches of rain fell within 48 hours, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. A year later, Vermont enacted the Climate Change […]
Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. New Study Explores the Impact of Book Bans on Library Circulation Researchers at Carnegie Mellon and George Mason University have published a new study about the impact of book bans on the consumption of banned […]
The “Super Bowl flu” could cost US businesses several billion dollars and waste nearly 108 million working hours collectively, according to a new study. An estimated 54 million employed, alcohol-drinking Americans are expected to tune in Sunday to watch the Kansas City Chiefs go for a three-peat against the Philadelphia Eagles — with nearly 23 […]
And, while the surveys collected and analyzed in the study were specific to the New York Public Library, researchers believe they can be extended to other libraries—be they in rural, urban, or suburban areas—across the country. Daphna Blatt, the NYPL’s Senior Director of Strategy & Public Impact and one of the people involved in the […]
