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Public support for marijuana legalization in the United States has rapidly increased over recent years. Despite federal laws prohibiting its use, nearly three-quarters of states have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational purposes. According to a January 2024 Pew Research Center survey,...

A Pew Research survey showed that Americans prefer legal cannabis over legal tobacco, a societal shift that should come as no surprise to anyone who has not been living under a rock for the past several years.  The survey indicated that 59% of American adults believe marijuana should be...

A recent coronavirus research report by Pew revealed the highest number of American young adults are living with their parents now since the Great Depression. Before COVID-19 lockdowns occurred in the United States, 46% of young adults reported they were living with parents as of January 2020....

The past decade has been one of the best in recent memory for investors. But before investors assume the market will cool down in the 2020s, it’s important to remember just how bad the 2000s were. In fact, the trailing 20-year return for the S&P 500 is near its lowest level of the past 90...

Social media sites such as Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) and Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) are in many ways an ideal platform to break news, market, network, receive feedback from followers, communicate a brand and drive traffic to a business. It's important to note that journalism plays a critical...

When J.B. Pritzker, Illinois' new Democratic governor, proposed his first budget, he warned that getting the state’s troubled finances in order would be a long-term project. “It took decades to get us into this mess. It will take at least several years to get us out of it,” he...

President Donald Trump has made America, for the first time since the Vietnam war, grate again — grating the nerves of the rest of the free world. The Pew Research Center published a study showing that the world’s view of the United States has plunged from 64 percent favorability to 49...

President-elect Donald Trump will officially drop the "elect" adjective on Friday and be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Meanwhile, the majority of Americans have no plans of tuning in to the inauguration ceremony, according to Statista. Statista, citing Pew...

Fox News CEO Roger Ailes is reportedly leaving the company amid a slew of sexual harassment charges, and Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ: FOX) (NASDAQ: FOXA) investors are left wondering what the wildly successful network’s future will look like in the post-Ailes era. According to the...

Tightly situated between children who are struggling to gain their independence and parents who are losing their own independence, Sandwichers face countless struggles. While the monetary difficulties may be the most obvious, there are other factors involved with feeling pulled and prodded by...

It's still weeks away, but in true Millennial fashion, early planning for the New Year is a hot topic. As the holiday how-to and DIY ideas begin circulating social media in earnest, quietly breaking up the monotony of winter wonderland prep is the whisper of New Year's Resolutions. And...

Ahead of the 2016 presidential election, the public's trust in the U.S. government stands at historic lows. According to a recent report published by Pew Research, only 19 percent of the people in the United States trust the government “always/all of the time.” This figure compares...

Pew Research just released its annual Mobile Messaging and Social Media report, and the results show that Pinterest and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB)’s Instagram are the big winners when it comes to growth. According to the survey, usage rates among rivals Facebook, LinkedIn Corp (NASDAQ: LNKD...

Everybody wonders what the future will hold. Think of movies like Back to the Future, 2001: A Space Odyssey or any of the post apocalyptic TV series and movies that have become the new in-thing. Investors spend their careers betting on the future but when Pew Research conducted a study asking...

The Internet is turning 25! Hard to believe that something most Americans now see as an essential component to everyday life is only 25 years old. But what's really interesting is Americans' relationship to the internet, and how it has changed in that quarter century. Pew Research just updated...