Updated: Jun. 26, 2019 at 7:14 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst Places for 4th of July Celebrations, as well as videos and interesting stats about the holiday.
Updated: Jun. 17, 2019 at 1:32 PM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
The study compared the 50 U.S. states based on 33 key metrics, to find the most fun, scenic and wallet-friendly road-trip destinations.
Updated: Jun. 11, 2019 at 9:26 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With many local economies still recovering from natural disasters including hurricanes on the East Coast, wildfires on the West Coast, and flooding in the Midwest, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Greenest States.
Updated: Jun. 10, 2019 at 8:00 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With summer just around the corner and families planning out their vacations, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Most Fun States in America, as well as accompanying videos.
Updated: Jun. 4, 2019 at 9:20 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With economic growth varying significantly from one state to another — California recently became the fifth largest economy in the world while Alaska has an unemployment rate over 6%, for instance — the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst State Economies
Updated: Jun. 3, 2019 at 7:48 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With employers expecting to hire 16.6 percent more graduates from the Class of 2019 than in the previous year, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst States for Jobs.
Updated: May. 27, 2019 at 9:06 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With the NBA Finals kicking off on May 30 and the league allowing teams to sell ad space on uniforms as of 2017 – which is estimated to generate $100 million to $150 million in yearly revenue - the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Best Cities for Basketball Fans.
Updated: May. 23, 2019 at 8:34 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With summer approaching and many young adults expected to look for short-term work in order to bridge their finances or grow their professional skills, the personal-finance website WalletHub took an in-depth look at 2019’s Best Places for Summer Jobs.To help job seekers find the best summer employme
Updated: May. 20, 2019 at 9:04 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With May being Military Appreciation Month and significant military pension changes having taken effect last year, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst States for Military Retirees, as well as Memorial Day facts.
Updated: May. 13, 2019 at 11:22 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With SAMHSA’s National Prevention Week in full swing and the Trump administration focusing on the opioid epidemic, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on the States with the Biggest Drug Problems in 2019, as well as accompanying videos to highlight the areas that stand to
Updated: May. 7, 2019 at 7:37 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With gun sales still in decline since President Donald Trump took office, and with new gun laws taking effect this year such as a federal ban on “bump stocks,” the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s States Most Dependent on the Gun Industry.
Updated: May. 6, 2019 at 11:47 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With May 5 kicking off National Small Business Week and half of Americans working for small businesses, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s best large cities to start a business.
Updated: Apr. 29, 2019 at 8:02 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With immigration policy remaining a hot-button issue in 2019’s political landscape, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Most Diverse Cities in America, as well as accompanying videos.
Updated: Apr. 23, 2019 at 11:32 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With average annual car insurance premiums on the rise, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its 2019 report on the States with the Cheapest & Most Expensive Car Insurance, along with a review of Tennessee’s Best Cheap Car Insurance Companies.
Updated: Apr. 16, 2019 at 9:43 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With Easter Sunday around the corner and roughly 79 percent of all Americans expected to observe the holiday in some way, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2018’s Best Places to Celebrate Easter, as well as its Easter Facts and Stats infographic.
Updated: Apr. 15, 2019 at 8:50 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With April being National Financial Literacy Month, the free credit website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Most & Least Financially Literate States - as well as accompanying videos – which analyzes financial-education programs and consumer habits in each of the 50 states and the Distric
Updated: Apr. 10, 2019 at 1:17 PM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With Tax Day fast approaching and the new tax code taking effect this year, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its 2019 Tax Burden by State report.
Updated: Apr. 9, 2019 at 11:48 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With Tax Day approaching, WalletHub has released its latest analysis of the U.S. tax landscape - an in-depth look at the states with the Best & Worst Taxpayer Return on Investment in 2019.
Updated: Apr. 2, 2019 at 5:57 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With April being Stress Awareness Month and millennials reporting the highest average stress levels of any generation, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Most & Least Stressed States.
Updated: Apr. 1, 2019 at 8:58 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With mortgage rates slowly falling and the market friendlier to buyers than sellers, the free credit-score website WalletHub has released its 2019 Home Overleverage Report.
Updated: Mar. 25, 2019 at 8:44 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With March being National Nutrition Month and Americans collectively spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually on obesity-related medical treatment, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Fattest Cities in America.
Updated: Mar. 19, 2019 at 10:57 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With the tax deadline drawing near, the personal-finance website WalletHub followed up on its 2019 Tax Rates by State report with an in-depth analysis of 2019’s Most & Least Federally Dependent States to determine how much those with the lowest tax rates lean on Uncle Sam compared with those paying
Updated: Mar. 18, 2019 at 1:00 PM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
To give credit to the states that have contributed the most to America’s innovative success, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 24 key metrics, including share of STEM professionals and R&D spending per capita.
Updated: Mar. 12, 2019 at 8:37 AM CDT
|By Action News 5 Staff and Dave Jenkins
With BLS data showing a correlation between higher education levels, higher income and lower unemployment rates, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019’s Most & Least Educated States in the U.S.
Updated: Mar. 4, 2019 at 1:16 PM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
To identify the most women-friendly states, WalletHub compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 24 key categories, ranging from median earnings for female workers to women’s preventive health care to female homicide rate.
Updated: Feb. 26, 2019 at 10:27 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
In order to determine who pays the most relative to their state, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its 2019 Property Taxes by State report as well as accompanying videos, which compares home and vehicle taxes across the nation and features insights from a panel of experts.
Updated: Feb. 25, 2019 at 11:49 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
In order to determine where Americans work the hardest, WalletHub compared the 116 largest cities in 10 categories, ranging from employment rate to average hours worked per week to share of workers with multiple jobs.
Updated: Feb. 18, 2019 at 6:50 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
With the economic and societal costs of smoking totaling more than $300 billion a year and rising, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on The Real Cost of Smoking by State, as well as accompanying videos.
Updated: Feb. 11, 2019 at 8:17 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
With STEM jobs projected to grow at a faster rate than other careers until at least 2024, the personal-finance website WalletHub followed up on its Best Places to Find a Job report with an in-depth analysis of 2019’s Best & Worst Metro Areas for STEM Professionals as well as accompanying videos.
Updated: Feb. 5, 2019 at 11:47 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
To determine the most romantic yet affordable cities for celebrating the Day of Hearts, WalletHub compared 100 of the largest U.S. cities across 25 key metrics, ranging from florists per capita to forecasted precipitation to cost of a three-course meal for two.
Updated: Jan. 29, 2019 at 11:34 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
With immigration reform remaining one of the biggest policy issues in 2019 and border security taking center stage in the longest government shutdown in history, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2019′s Economic Impact of Immigration by State as well as accompanying v
Updated: Jan. 14, 2019 at 8:27 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
With 2017’s tax overhaul permanently reducing the federal corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 21 percent, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its latest Corporate Tax Rate Report.
Updated: Jan. 7, 2019 at 7:57 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
To determine where Americans have the best chance of balancing a healthy diet with ample physical activity, WalletHub compared the 100 biggest U.S. cities in 38 key metrics.
Updated: Jan. 4, 2019 at 5:41 PM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
The personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2018′s Safest Cities in America.
Updated: Jan. 3, 2019 at 7:24 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
ith the U.S. government closed for business for the 21st time since 1976, this time with a partial shutdown, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on the States Most & Least Affected by the 2019 Government Shutdown to add some hard data to all the rhetoric.
Updated: Dec. 24, 2018 at 10:08 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
92 percent of Americans are doomed to fail at keeping their New Year’s resolutions.
Updated: Dec. 17, 2018 at 8:39 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
With the giving season reminding us to be selfless and 12.3 percent of our fellow Americans in poverty and half a million homeless, the personal-finance website WalletHub followed up on its report on the Most Charitable States with an in-depth look at 2018's Neediest Cities as well as accompanying
Updated: Dec. 10, 2018 at 8:58 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
The debt picture is worrisome nationwide, but some areas have bigger payment problems than others according to WalletHub’s report on the Cities with the Most & Least Credit Card Debt entering 2019.
Updated: Dec. 4, 2018 at 8:34 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
To help graduates and mid-life career-changers launch their careers in the right place, WalletHub has released its report on 2018’s Best & Worst Places to Start a Career.
Updated: Dec. 3, 2018 at 9:31 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
Ahead of a winter season with above-normal temperatures and more rain than snow, according to the latest forecast from the Old Farmers’ Almanac, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its 2018’s Best Winter Holiday Destinations report as well as accompanying videos to supplement its mon
Updated: Nov. 29, 2018 at 8:53 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
To determine where the most generous Americans are inspiring others to be more selfless, WalletHub compared the 50 states based on 18 key indicators of charitable behavior. The categories range from volunteer rate, to share of income donated, to share of sheltered homeless.
Updated: Nov. 28, 2018 at 10:41 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
To determine the cities where the game is always on regardless of season, WalletHub compared 419 small to large cities across the five largest sports in the U.S.: football, basketball, baseball, hockey and soccer.
Updated: Nov. 19, 2018 at 7:29 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
With 51 percent of American consumers saying that Black Friday no longer offers the best deals of the year, the personal-finance website WalletHub took an in-depth look at 2018's Best Things to Buy on Black Friday.
Updated: Nov. 13, 2018 at 10:01 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
With consumers expected to spend as much as $1.1 trillion this holiday season, despite near-record credit card debt levels, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its Holiday Shopping Survey to help holiday shoppers save money and avoid a financial hangover in the new year.
Updated: Nov. 12, 2018 at 10:10 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
With economic growth varying significantly from one state to another - California recently became the fifth largest economy in the world while Alaska has an unemployment rate over 7%, for instance.......
Updated: Nov. 6, 2018 at 8:08 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
With employers expecting to have hired 4 percent more graduates from the Class of 2018 than in the previous year, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on 2018’s Best & Worst States for Jobs.
Updated: Nov. 5, 2018 at 7:17 AM CST
|By Dave Jenkins
With tuition costs having more than doubled since the 1980s, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its 2019's Best College & University Rankings
Updated: Oct. 29, 2018 at 8:43 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With the Trump administration proposing harsher penalties for drug offenders, the personal-finance website WalletHub has released its report on the States with the Biggest Drug Problems in 2018 to highlight the areas that stand to be most affected.
Updated: Oct. 24, 2018 at 11:05 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
To determine the best places to be a fan of America’s third most followed sport, WalletHub compared 360 U.S. cities with at least one college or professional baseball team across 31 key metrics, ranging from performance level of team(s) to average ticket price to stadium accessibility.
Updated: Oct. 23, 2018 at 7:34 AM CDT
|By Dave Jenkins
With Halloween just around the corner and total spending on related expenses projected to reach over $9 billion this year...