Comcast, the Biggest Cable Company in the U.s
In a sign of the times, Comcast, the biggest cable company in the U.S., may soon have more internet subscribers than cable customers. The company added just 6,000 new cable TV subscribers last quarter, bringing the company’s total to 22.4 million. But its broadband subscribers surged by 375,000 to almost 22 million, as more people switch to online services like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu.
Eighty-eight percent of student loan borrowers who left school in 2009 and have since defaulted on their loans had debts of less than $50,000. Nearly half had loan balances under $10,000.
Research shows that people who rejoin the workforce after being out of work for some time tend to accept salaries 25 percent lower than those accepted by active job hunters.
Movie-ticketing websites like Fandango and Movie-Tickets have been around for 15 years, but just 13 percent of the 1.3 billion movie tickets sold in the U.S. last year were purchased online.
When you compare women and men who earn the same salaries, women tend to save at the same rate or higher than their male counterparts. Yet overall, the typical working man’s 401(k) balance ($121,000) remains higher than the average woman’s ($78,000), thanks largely to the persistent wage gap.
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