• The Purpose - Driven Spend
• Survey Finds Many Americans Have Taken Steps to Protect Themselves Against H1N1
• Federal Reserve Study Shows That More Than Two-Thirds of Noncash Payments Are Now Electronic
• Survey Documents Flu Fears
• Nearly Half of Americans Concerned They or Their Family May Get Sick From Swine Flu
• Confidence Inches Up. Still in the Deep Woods
• Color Says it All
• Financial Trust Index: 19 Percent of Americans Trust Financial System
• At -50 Consumer Comfort Index in Familiar Territory
• AARP Bulletin Survey on Retirement Savings
• Q1 2009: A Confidence Sourball
• Multi-Generational Housing Patterns

Economic Optimism at a 5-Year High, Even as Current Conditions Stay Grim - A Third Expect the Economy to Improve in the Next Year. Economic optimism hit a five-year high this week, even as consumer ratings of current economic conditions reversed their recent positive trend. A third of Americans now say the economy's improving, matching the number who say it's getting worse the first time since January 2004 there've been as many economic optimists ... Read More

Lifetime Television Outranks All Cable and Broadcast Networks as Top Women's Television Brand - Leading Women's Destination Named "Favorite" and "Most Trusted" channel Among Women for Ninth Consecutive Year; Lifetime Voted Most "Empowering" Women's Network for Seventh Straight Year. Liftetime Television, the highest-rated women's network, has once again ranked as the leading television brand in an annual national survey measuring women's perceptions of cable and broadcast networks. ... Read More

Four In Five Employees Worried About The Economy - Eighty percent of employees are worried about the state of the economy, according to a nationwide survey of 501 employed Americans conducted by Right Management. While 16 % of respondents are distracted at work as a result of their worry, the majority (84%) say they don't feel that their concern is impacting their job performance. Right Management is the talent and career management expert within Manpower, the global leader in employment services. Are you ... Read More

Paralysis Population Survey Shows Over a Million More Paralyzed Than Previously Estimated - A survey of over 33,000 households released today shows that 40 percent more Americans live with paralysis and over five times the number of Americans live with spinal cord injury than previously estimated. Specifically, the survey shows that 1.275 million have had a spinal cord injury and over 5.6 million Americans ... Read More