Is Divorce Contagious?
According to a new study, which will be published soon in the journal Social Forces: Yeah, divorce is totally contagious. Study authors examined 30 years worth of data on marriage and remarriage in...
View ArticleTrending: Where Walking’s the Way
Walkers on Lewis Street in Central Greenwich, Conn., Saturday, Nov. 2, 2013. Photo: Bob Luckey With prospective real estate buyers increasingly weighinga neighborhood’s walkability ranking when making...
View ArticleTrending: When We Live On Our Own
Krista Way with her Yorkshire terrier, Toby, in her Greenwich home, Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013. Way, who is single, lives in the Chickahominy section of Greenwich in a duplex. More than 32 million...
View ArticleNew report shows driving decreasing steadily in Southwestern Connecticut,...
A new study published this week by the public-interest organization ConnPIRG finds that people across America’s largest urbanized areas are driving much less than before, and Fairfield County is no...
View ArticleTrending: When We Retire
Connecticut has one of the highest shares of senior citizens in the workforce in the entire nation, with 21.8 percent of state residents over the age of 65 having worked in the last 12 months,...
View ArticleTrending: When We Retire
Northeast Elementary School principal Connie Stevenson works in her office on Friday December 13, 2013 in Stamford, Conn. Connecticut has one of the highest shares of senior citizens in the workforce...
View ArticleTrending: How Long It Takes To Save For a Down Payment
Saving up for a down payment on a home in Southwestern Connecticut is no easy task. With many banks standing firm on the need for a 20 percent down payment and home prices topping out at well over $1...
View ArticleTrending: Where we stay, where we don’t
How long has it been since you’ve packed up and moved? How about your next-door neighbor? If you live in the 06468 ZIP code assigned to Monroe, or Trumbull’s 06611, chances are your answer is several...
View ArticleTrending: Where to look for love
Valentine’s Day: the ultimate day to declare your love for someone, if you’re into that sort of thing. But for those who don’t have a Valentine pegged down, fear not. We dug into some data to figure...
View ArticleTrending: Where We Buy Our Coffee
by Lidia Ryan and Maggie Gordon by Lidia Ryan and Maggie Gordon Boston.com ran an interesting map showing who pledges their allegiance to Starbucks versus Dunkin’ Donuts. Not surprisingly, the map...
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