House prices in Portugal rose 18.7% in 2022, the biggest increase in three decades, and rents have also increased significantly in part due to a speculative property bubble. Article content Low wages and high rents make Lisbon the world’s third-least viable city to live in, according to a...
Flat Tax vs. National Sales Tax; Retail Tax Would Increase Cost of Living
The Deputy Prime Minister said the review may be necessary because of the increase in household debt to gross domestic product (GDP) ratio from 67.2% in 2002 to 81.2% in 2022. “The property sector continues to dominate household debt, with housing credit increasing from 36% in 1997 to...
“Key factors like retirement, wanting to be closer to family and lifestyle changes influenced by the pandemic along with current housing prices drove moving patterns in 2022,” Michael A. Stoll, economist and professor in the Department of Public Policy at the University of California, Los Angel...
industrialization and have relatively outdated energy infrastructures. Consequently, an improvement in living standards within these emerging economies may result in a subsequent increase in CO2emissions associated with fossil fuels in the future12,13....
select article An SMS and animated video intervention to increase uptake of breast cancer screening: a randomised controlled trial Conference abstractAbstract only An SMS and animated video intervention to increase uptake of breast cancer screening: a randomised controlled trial Amish Acharya, Ara Darzi,...
Mathew Akrigg, policy and research officer for the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP), said: “These are fantastic news stories for the worker, however, they come at a huge cost to employers.” He said that the rise in employers’ NI and increase to the national living wage...
year-over-year salary increase budgets for 2023, continuing an upswing that began in 2022. Even more promising for American workers: a quarter of employers plan to give increases in the range of 5–7 percent in 2023. Salary.com conducted the survey of 1000+ organizations in June of 2022. ...
Over the last few years, there have been considerable discussions on the impacts of Municipal Development Charges (DCs) on both the affordability of new homes and on the implications of the overall cost to build new housing. When combined with the eye-watering rate of increase for DCs over ...
Homelessness in the Golden State is 'at a crisis level,' according to the Department of Housing and Urban Development.