Moonlighting is less common now, despite what you might have heard
Contrary to conventional wisdom, working multiple jobs has become less common over the past two decades.
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, working multiple jobs has become less common over the past two decades.
If history is any guide, well under half of eligible voters will come out to vote in Tuesday’s midterms.
Scotland’s independence referendum stands out from most other such votes in two ways: its peaceful nature and doubt as to its outcome.
Two of every five U.S. households have no landline phones, but the growth rate of cord-cutting slowed last year.
Technological change already has reshaped the U.S. workforce — creating new job categories while others fade away.
The number of Facebook users who log into the social-networking service or share content through it on any given day.
The states with the most wireless-only households tend to be largely rural and in the West or South; households in the Northeast are most likely to hang onto their landlines.
More people look for dates online than for home furnishings, health and personal-care items and several other types of consumer goods.
American teens have long been the country’s most-wired age group. But contrary to the stereotype of hyper-connected teens, they say some things are better done in person.
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