According to the “United States Registered Nurse Workforce Report Card and Shortage Forecast” published in 2012 in The American Journal of Medical Quality, a shortage of Registered Nurses is expected to spread across the country from 2009 to 2030. The shortage is expected to be most intense in the South and West. In an article […]
From November 17-20, 2016, the American Resource Group, Inc. conducted a telephone survey of 1,100 adults age 18 and older living in telephone households in the continental United States. The following five questions were asked: What do you think you will spend on gifts thisChristmas? Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? Will you make […]
Before you open your next six-month premium notice for your car, sit down. You are going to be shocked and dismayed at the new amount you will have to pay for insurance on your vehicle. The increases range from 10 percent to 25 percent and more. Even if you have a clean driving record and […]
When snow and ice cover the streets, your first impulse each morning is to crawl back under the covers. Who wants to think about shoveling the driveway or scraping ice off the windshield of a vehicle parked outside on the street? Who wants to sit in a cold car? Nevertheless, you have to go to […]
Winter! If you live in or near Chicago, winter always means ice and snow. However, nothing can compare to the snowstorms of the winters of 1967, 1979, 1999, and 2011. In each of those snowstorms, more than twenty inches of snow fell. Cars were buried in the drifts. Streets were impassible. Trains provided limited service. […]