During Ramadan, Muslims from around the world fast from sunrise to sunset. Here’s how they break their fast.
Roughly1.2 billionpeople lack access to traditional financial services. But as we highlighted in ourNew Age in Banking Whitepaper, unbanked does not equal insolvent. In the EU, 33% of unbanked consumers are employed full-time and 9% are students. In Canada, among the top 60% of households,...
Urbanization and climate change are contributing to severe flooding globally, damaging infrastructure, disrupting economies, and undermining human well-being. Approaches to make cities more resilient to floods are emerging, notably with the design of flo
For connectivity, 40% of households are willing to pay a premium for an unlimited mobile allowance, 38% are willing to pay more for broadband in return for privacy, security and wellbeing features, 37% would pay more for broadband in return for good customer service, 36% are willin...
(2013) suggested that caregivers of children in Alabama were more likely to practice the prepared plans (e.g., participating in a tornado drill) than households without children. Christensen (2012) examined the preparedness for hurricanes among caregivers of older adults with cognitive impairment in...
In 2010, 41.2% of UK households were recycling their waste. By 2011, this figure had grown to 43.3% of households. By 2019, this figure had peaked to 45.5% of households recycling waste. This figure dropped to 44.0% in 2020, which could be down to the effects of COVID on local autho...
The EY Decoding the digital home study is based on an online survey of 20,000 households in the UK, the US, France, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Canada. It was conducted in July and August 2024, updating previous annual surveys of multiple ma...
grocer Ammar’s Halal Meats, sees evidence of the same trends in his shop. “Halal options of the foods and snacks that many Muslim Canadians grew up around in Canada are much more prevalent,” he says. “Desserts like cakes and gummy candies using halal beef gelatin are more commonly ...
For 2023, it is estimated that there were 19,444,975 accredited investor households in the U.S. Roughly 14.8% of American Households qualified as Accredited Investors, and those households controlled roughly $109.5 trillion in wealth in 2023. Measured by the SCF, that was around 78.7% of all...
t have enough itemized deductions to claim. For the 2024 tax year, individual tax filers can claim a $14,600 standard deduction (up to $15,000 for 2025) or $21,900 (up to $22,500 for 2025) if they are heads of households. For married couples filing jointly, the standard deduction ...