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2024 Well Workplace Award Winners 

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Platinum Level Award Winners SECURA Insurance Companies Medifast Inc. Garver NASCAR Polk County Government School District of Sun Prairie Area Higginbotham Insurance Agency Inc. Woodman’s Food Market, Inc. Essex Property Trust Inc. AECOM Ashley Furniture Industries, Inc.

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3 middle class families across America share what they earn, spend, and save

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Although household incomes have increased considerably since 1970, the share of adults who live in middle-class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021 (the last time Pew did an analysis of government data). “Plus, food prices in Spain are cheap,” she says.

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The Connection Cure: An Interview with Julia Hotz

Mad in America

But it’s also about access to food, safe and reliable transportation, and other basic resources. Social prescriptions, like I said, also apply to food, money, housing support, legal support—because those things affect our health too, right? We were outside, growing our own food to share with our community. Not so much.

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This is what it looks like to be single and middle class in New York, Ohio and Florida

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Although household incomes have increased considerably since 1970, the share of adults who live in middle-class households fell from 61% in 1971 to 50% in 2021 (the last time Pew did an analysis of government data) with adults in single-earner households being among the groups that slid down the income ladder the most between 1971 and 2021.

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Lessons on Creating a Business Emergency Plan From Maine-Based Company Better With Buckwheat

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The government declared a state of emergency. He says he talked with one of the company’s board advisers who had gone through a fire disaster at a food company, and he spoke with others who had experienced floods. You can’t wait for the insurance adjuster, and the people I called told me to just do it and figure out the money later.

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Why more middle class Americans are defining themselves as working class

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Grocery store food prices were 1.2% Car insurance is up 20.6% families who are unable to afford the basics of housing, child care, food, transportation, health care and technology. Car insurance is up 20.6% higher in January 2024 than in January 2023, according to the U.S. Outpatient medical services are up 8.3%

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Being a U.S. Olympic athlete is not the windfall you think it is

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Some American Olympians sleep in a car at night or without sufficient food or adequate health insurance, the report found. Here are some reasons why athletes find themselves in such a financial hole: Olympic committees and sport governing bodies are often cash-strapped themselves; companies are cutting athlete sponsorships and the U.S.