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Popular Yardley Salon Moves To Larger Location, Looking To Serve More Customers
A local politician just helped a popular Yardley salon celebrate their new location, a change that will allow them to see more customers. Salon Millan recently moved their operations to 27 E. Afton Avenue in Yardley, a larger location when compared to their previous spot. Their new spot is located near the Delaware Canal Towpath,…
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Bucks County, Surrounding Areas See Influx of New Yorkers Moving In, Changing Median Household Income
Bucks County is one of several areas near Philadelphia that has been seeing an influx of New York natives moving in over the last few years. Ryan Mulligan wrote about the trend for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Over the last few years, Bucks County had been one of the top Philadelphia-area regions that has seen…
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Bucks County Bank Partners With Cryptocurrency Organization, Doubles Legal Lending Limit
A Bucks County bank recently partnered with a cryptocurrency firm to significantly increase their legal lending limit. Jeff Blumenthal wrote about the recent partnership for the Philadelphia Business Journal. Huntington Valley Bank recently partnered with MakerDAO to convert cryptocurrency into real-world assets. This is big news for anyone involved in the world of cryptocurrency, and…
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Cost-of-Living Woes Hit American Families Coast to Coast, but How Bad (Or Good) Are Things Here?
To quantify the current household effect of inflation and other economic woes, SmartAsset has parsed data with enough granularity to not only reveal state trends, but county ones, as well. Its regional evaluation of 2022 purchasing power assessed of the varying outlays for: Housing Food Taxes Education/Childcare Transportation Healthcare Household items, clothing, electronics, etc. The…
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Bucks County Saw An Increase In Housing Growth Last Year
There is a massive boom in suburban housing across the nation, and the counties surrounding Philadelphia are amongst the most well-off. Erin Davis wrote about the boom for Axios. Between July 2020 and July 2021, Bucks County recorded growth in housing units of 0.2 percent. While it did not manage to beat out the national…
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Climbing Grocery Costs Has Us Peeling off More Green to Purchase Greens… and Other Staples
April provided a modest reprieve in inflation, dropping to 0.3 percent from March’s staggering 1.2 percent. Nonetheless, some grocery items still saw prices steeply climb, writes Lauren Liebhaber for Stacker. Year-over-year, the cost of groceries went up by 10.8 percent, the largest annual foodstuff increase in more than four decades. The increase was primarily driven…
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Uncle Sam’s Annual Reckoning: How Many of Us Are Getting a Tax Refund? How Many of Us Owe?
Income tax filing day 2022 has come and gone. It its wake is now a general sense of glumness for those who owed and a feeling of glee for those awaiting rebates. The number of county residents at both ends of that spectrum was revealed in a recent SmartAsset study. SmartAsset’s experts analyzed IRS data…
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A Suspension Pa. Students Won’t Fight: The Pause on Student Loan Payments
In perhaps a twist on the concept, students in Pa. are appreciative that they’ve gotten a suspension. In this case, it’s the Biden administration’s pause on repayments of federal student loans — a temporary relief action that many hope will continue. Taylor Allen and Mike D’Onofrio studied the implications for Axios. U.S. student debt has…
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Phila. Cost of Living Rate: It’s One Tenth of a Percentage Point Cheaper Living in Vegas Than Here
In the past decade, the Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington metro area recorded the fourth-lowest cost of living increase out of 55 large-sized metro areas, writes Ryan Mulligan for the Philadelphia Business Journal. A new report by Filterbuy ranked areas with the highest cost of living rise over the past ten years. The analysis looked at cities with more…
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Lotto Luck: Honey Brook Man Is America’s First Millionaire of the New Year
Honey Brook resident Brian Mineweaser rung in 2022 as the “Powerball First Millionaire of the Year” after he became the lucky winner of $1 million, writes Carly O’Neill for FOX 43. He was randomly selected in a drawing among the five finalists and was delivered the good news during ABC’s live broadcast of Dick Clark’s…
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Check Out Where Bucks County Ranks in Purchasing Power in Pennsylvania
Bucks County has ranked near the top in purchasing power in the state of Pennsylvania. An article from SmartAsset recently published their eighth annual study on the places with the most purchasing power. To find the places where the average living expenses are most favorable, SmartAsset looked at the cost of living relative to residents’…
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