Abortion Turned Around

Adulting 

1. Don't Follow Your Passion  (Video)

Aging and Wealth and Your Net Worth

Annual United States Budget

1.  U.S. Federal Budget Breakdown

Athletes

1. How and Why Athletes Go Broke
2. The Dumbest Purchases Made By Athletes.. Terrell Owens Bought What?!
3. Jim Plunkett Says 'My Life Sucks,' Lives in Constant Pain from Football | Bleacher Report
4. 5 Reasons Why 80% Of Retired NFL Players Go Broke
5. Why Athletes Go Broke
6. 8-Figures and broke; Why do professional athletes go bankrupt so often?

Alchohol

1. Even one drink a day could be shortening your life expectancy
2. No amount of alcohol is good for your overall health, global study says - CNN

Amazing Videos To Watch

Amazing People

1.  Teen serial inventor returns with pollution filter to clear city skies

Amazing Things People Do

1. 88-year-old mother reunites with daughter she thought had died at birth 69 years ago

Amazon Prime

1.  Sixty-Four Percent Of U.S. Households Have Amazon Prime

American History

1. Ten Facts About Washington & Slavery · George Washington's Mount Vernon 
2. 1619-1968 Timeline of Slavery in the United States of America
3. Understanding Jim Crow 
4. Jim Crow and America's Racism Explained

Apple Technology

1. Can Apple Save Siri, the World’s Most Annoying A.I.?

Australia Savings Strategy

1. Mandatory Savings: How Australia Fixed a Retirement Crisis 

Basketball Lessons

1. Landing a punch on Michael Jordan

Better Life Recipe

1. Meet Mario Fernandes, the Star Russia Defender Who Doesn't Speak Russian

Bible Facts and Research

1. Ahitophel - The Wise Man who Committed Suicide!
2. What the Bible Says About Creation Dr.. Henry Morris
3. The Book of Enoch and other false writings

Birth Statistics

Black Reseach, Stats, Finances and Facts

Business Failures

Business Lessons

Businesses To Watch

1.  Trump, Amazon and the Postal Service: The story behind the tweet
2. We can only take so much abuse': Whole Foods suppliers slam 'hellacious' new policies and say rising costs are hurting business

Celebrity Research 

1. Jada Pinkett Smith Confesses To Past Sex Addiction: 'I Am A Binger'

Children's Allowances 

1.  Allowances: The Right Way to Give Your Child an Allowance | Money

China

1. The Belt and Road Initiative: The Defining Project of our Century - YouTube
2. The World's Top 10 Economies : Investopedia
3. China’s middle class is exploding
4. China still dumping U.S. debt -- and so is Japan. But Russia is buying
5. China’s central bank now has $3.66 trillion in foreign reserves. But where’d it come from?
6. U.S. Trade Deficit by Country: Current Statistics and Issues
7. Can China Really Rein in Credit?
8. Chinese Economic Problems for 2017

China Tradewar

1. China hits U.S. with $34 billion in retaliatory tariffs
2. South China Morning Post: China hits back at Trump's tariffs in growing trade war

Church Property Research 

1.  Churches: The New Risky Bet : Christianity Today
2. The Surprise Inside Church Bankruptcies | Christianity Today

1. The Number One Reason for the Decline in Church Attendance and Five Ways to Address It
2. The Most Disturbing Church Trend of Them All
3. Shocking Statistics about Church Decline
4. Church Attendance Trends Around the Country - Barna Group
5. Why church online as we know it is dead … and what the Church can do about it
6. 1 Incredibly Disturbing Church Trend for 2015 — Ministry Today
7. The ‘Unintended Consequence’ Overtaking the Multisite Church Movement
8. The Average Megachurch Attendee Might Surprise You | Facts & Trends - B-1
9. Is the Megachurch Era Over? Yes. And No. (And Other Contradictory Answers) | Pivot | A Blog by Karl Vaters - B-2
10. 10 Reasons Even Committed Church Attenders Are Attending Church Less Often - CareyNieuwhof.com - B-3

Church Online Facts

1. Majority of Americans Now Believe in Cohabitation
2. 'The new normal': Cohabitation on the rise, study finds - NBC News
3. Cohabitation in the marriage trend | Family Inequality
4. Cohabitation (or living together, or use to be called "Shacking")
5. The "Cohabitation Effect": The Consequences of Premarital Cohabitation - The Berkeley Science Review

1. Reuters: U.S. court rules for Virginia student on transgender bathroom access

Credit Research 

1.  Americans: Your credit score is going up

Credit Score

Crime Unbelievable

1.  Chicago police express frustration after more than 100 shot in violent Fourth of July weekend

Cruise Ship Budgets

Cryptocurrenty

1. Bill Gates: I would short bitcoin if I could

Current Events To Watch

1. China Hits Back on Trump Tariffs as Europe Off Hook for Now

Cyber Warfare

Dating

Data Change And Its Value

1.  Why Trump's election scares data scientists: CNN

Debt and Deficit

Debt and Relationships

Debt Explained

1.  The European Debt Crisis Visualized - YouTube
2. Debt Crisis of United States of America 2017 Explained in a Simplified Way - YouTube
3. What If China Collected on U.S. Debt? - YouTube

Degree Statistics

1. CNN Money: Store closings have tripled so far this year
2. Americans check their phones 80 times a day: study
3. Americans Pay More than Half of Their Bills Online
4. 2018 Global Payments Insight Survey: Bill Pay Services

Divorce

Donald Trump Comparison 

1. Andrew Jackson: The Forerunner of Donald Trump?

1. The Cone of Learning - Edgar Dale - Click for Google Search Results
2. College grads are getting nearly all the jobs
3. Learning how to learn | Barbara Oakley | TEDxOaklandUniversity (Video)

Education Issues

1. Trump's choice for education secretary raises questions

Education Stats

Employee 2018

1.  There are more jobs than people out of work 
2. Black Unemployment Is at an All-Time Low, But ...

Employee Stats and Information (Average Tenure of Staff)

1. Employee Retention - The Real Cost of Losing an Employee
2. Report: Trends in Job Tenure—and What Employers Should Do About Them

England Brexit

Ethnic Stats and Insights

1. Living in a poor neighborhood changes everything about your life
2. Video From Sunday: April 26, 2015 - Dr. Julia Hare speaks on schools, discipline, and young black men.
3. Why Riots Don't Work The Long-Term Negative Effects of Riots How the 1960's Riots Hurt African Americans
4. Black Lives Matter and Racial Tension in America - Barna Group 
5. Black Wealth in America Hardly Exists

1. Abortion's Racial Gap - The Atlantic
2. Abortion Has Killed More Black Americans Than Crime, Accidents, Cancer or AIDS | LifeNews.com

Facts About Children

1. Adult Kids At Home: How Long Is Too Long?
2. Number of Children | Child Trends
3. Average size of a family in the US 1960-2015 | Statistic

Facts About Mass Shootings

1. 50 years of U.S. mass shootings: The victims, sites, killers and weapons - Washington Post

1. 11 Facts about the Millennial Generation | Brookings Institution

1. Top Reasons For Divorce: http://divorce.lovetoknow.com/Top_Reasons_for_Divorce
2. Divorce Statistics and Living Together Before Marriage: https://www.afsp.org/understanding-suicide/facts-and-figures
3. Suicide Facts and Figures: https://www.afsp.org/understanding-suicide/facts-and-figures
4. Racial Disparities in Suicide Rates May Be Due to Culture Rather Than Genes: https://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2010/06_25_2010/story2.htm
5. Bishop TD Jakes Comments on Supreme Court Decision on Same Sex Marriage
6. The Father Factor http://www.fatherhood.org/father-absence-statistics
7. ACE Study: Relationship to Childhood Trauma and Later Life Health Issues  http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/
8. How much screen time?: http://bgr.com/2014/05/29/smartphone-computer-usage-study-chart/
9. Power of your thinking (Margaret Thatcher): http://www.ranker.com/list/the-iron-lady-movie-quotes/movie-and-tv-quotes
10. Healthy Husbands: http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/03/12/husband-s-health-and-attitude-loom-large-happy-long-term-marriages
11. Reading Levels Linkage to Incarceration: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/07/an-urban-myth-that-should-be-true/259329/
12. High School Graduation Rates: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/25/high-school-graduation-rate_n_2755340.html
13. Life Expectancy: http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/life-expectancy-by-re/
14. Cost of Raising a Child: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/18/cost-of-raising-a-child_n_5688179.html (see money also)
15. Facts about Child Abuse: https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-child-abuse
16. 49 Fascinating Facts About Fathers
17. The absent black father myth—debunked by CDC
18. How Dads Affect Their Daughters into Adulthood

Famous People That I Read About

Federal Budget 2017

1. 2017 United States Federal Budget 

Finances 2017

Gay Issues and Marriage

1. UK government to ban 'gay conversion therapy'
2. Queen Elizabeth's Cousin Ivar to Marry in First Gay Royal Wedding
3. In U.S., 10.2% of LGBT Adults Now Married to Same-Sex Spouse
4. Lesbian couples two and a half times more likely to get divorced than male same-sex couples, ONS figures reveal

Gender Studies

1. The weaker sex - Gender, education and work

Giving Stats

1.  Christians’ Financial Motivations Matter - Barna Group

Great Inventions

Great Men In History

1. Martin Luther King Jr. - A 5 Minute Biography

Great Companies In Trouble

Healthcare

Housing

1. 11 million Americans spend half their income on rent

How to Respond to Adversity

1. She Tells Her Grandma That She’s Just Been Cheated On So Grandma Tells Her To Do This

Income

The Internet

1. NPR: The Father Of The Web Is Worried About How Ugly It's Become
2. Who invented the Internet?

Immigration

1. the guardian: What you need to know about Trump's immigration ban
2. Now the Trump administration wants to limit citizenship for legal immigrants
3. Trump plans to sign executive order curbing birthright citizenship: report

Impact of Tax Reform On Churches

1. Nonprofits And Religious Organizations: Why Telling Your Story Will Be More Important Than Ever in 2018

Insurance Issues To Watch 2018

Insurance / Obamacare

1.  GOP Obamacare Strategy Could Unravel Markets Quickly, Report Warns 
2. Republicans’ 4-Step Plan to Repeal the Affordable Care Act
3. Centrist lawmakers plot bipartisan health care stabilization bill

Kids

1.  This Little Girl Asking Where Barack Obama Went Is the Hero We Need Right Now
2. Why kids love 'fascist' cartoons like 'Paw Patrol' and 'Thomas' CNN

Koch Brothers

1.  How the Koch Brothers Are Killing Public Transit Projects Around the Country

Loneliness

Lottery Lessons

Marriage and Divorce

Marriage 2018 Stats

Medical Disasters

Medical Issues

Men

1. The Father Factor : http://www.fatherhood.org/father-absence-statistics
2. 49 Fascinating Facts About Fathers
3. The absent black father myth—debunked by CDC
4. How Dads Affect Their Daughters into Adulthood
5. Men Can Be Abused, Too

Metal and Emotional Health

1. Carol Dweck, "Developing a Growth Mindset"
2. Change your Mindset, Change the Game: Dr. Alia Crum at TEDxTraverseCity 2014
3. Why Attitude Is More Important Than Intelligence
4. Is Anxiety Hereditary? 

1. Mexico Has A New President. This Is What It Means For The US.

1. Obama official: We could have stopped Russian trolls

1. Wanted: Jobs For 600 Million Young People: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/wanted-jobs-for-600-million-young-people/
2. GenX has most Financial Worries: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-generation-x-had-the-worst-personal-finance-year-ever-214519220.html
3. Retirement Myths: http://www.nextavenue.org/blog/busting-myths-about-work-retirement
4. 10 Richest Presidents: http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/02/14/americas-10-richest-presidents-1049821554/
5. Gender Pay Gap: http://www.today.com/money/gender-pay-gap-persists-women-age-812558?franchiseSlug=todaymoneymain
6. Cost of Raising a Child: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/18/cost-of-raising-a-child_n_5688179.html
7. The Black White Economic Divide in 5 Charts
8. Study: Less than half are middle class: http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/09/news/economy/middle-class/index.html
9. Millennials: Steps for Financial Success | Northwestern Mutual

Music And The Brain:

1.  Why can't you get that song out of your head?

Muslims: A Positive and Historic Look

1.  I Was a Muslim in the Trump White House—and I Lasted Eight Days: The Atlantic

1. The Credibility Crisis of Today’s Pastors
2. Eight Point Eight Two: How long do pastors stay in one church? - 'For Every Man'
3. Generational Giving Habits:  http://www.fellowshipone.com/blog/leveraging-ramifications-generational-giving/
4. High Cost of Debt for Ministries: http://ministrytodaymag.com/index.php/ministry-leadership/finance/1491-the-high-cost-of-debt-in-ministry
5. Importance of Church Membership: http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/is-church-membership-really-required/
6. Church Bankruptcies: http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/november-web-only/surprise-inside-church-bankruptcies.html
7. The Church In Financial Crisis: http://www.daveramsey.com/blog/the-church-in-financial-crisis/
8. Momentum - Training: http://www.daveramsey.com/momentum/home/
9. Top Reasons for Church Attendance - Why People Go to Church
11. Church Bankruptcies Paper (Pamela Foohey): http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2219964
12. Why Churches are Less Evangelistic: http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e900691004213b8049094abdb&id=472e888079&e=ed7bc02419
13. Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Church Volunteer Handbook -http://www.ocbfchurch.org/images/uploads/ministries/membership/OCBF-Volunteer-Handbook06-12.pdf
14. Online Giving 
15. Why Do So Many Pastors Leave The Ministry? The Facts Will Shock You 
16. Six Things You Need to Know about Pastors Who Leave Their Ministry 

Pastors Retirement

Pastors Stats

People Who Make A Difference

1. CNN's 2015 Hero of the Year: Maggie Doyne
2. CNN Hero of the Year revealed: Jeison Aristizábal

Police Work, The High Price

Politics

Political Divisions and How To Respond

1. How Christian Leaders Should, and Should Not, Speak in This Kavanaugh Moment

Political Milestones

1. Lauren Underwood Beats 4-Term GOP Rep To Become District's First Black Congresswoman

Publishing Research 

Reading Habits

Religion Gone Too Far

1.  Parents Break Down as Judge Explains Why They Are Charged in Baby's Starvation Death

Retirement 

1. How Big Is the Average Person’s Social Security Check?
2. Forget the 4% Rule: Rethinking Common Retirement Beliefs
3. Could You Get By On the Average Retirement Income? - NerdWallet

Russia's Goal

Russia Investigation

Same Sex Discussion

Sexual Assault Research

1. Five high school 'mean girls' targeted boy with false accusations of sexual assault, lawsuit claims

Schools

Science

1. New Gene Editing Method May Revolutionize Cancer Treatment

Slavery

Shopping Research Merchandise Returns

1. The Wall Street Journal: What Stores Do With $90 Billion in Merchandise Returns

Singles Facts

1. Live Long and Prosper - Jewish Roots:  http://www.churchleaders.com/pastors/videos-for-pastors/173175-star-trek-s-live-long-and-prosper-has-jewish-roots-who-knew.html
2. Christian vs. Non-Christian Lifestyle Choices: http://www.christiantoday.com/article/american.study.reveals.indulgent.lifestyle.christians.no.different/9439.htm
3. What is Lasciviousness?: http://www.gotquestions.org/lasciviousness.html
4. Why Churches are Less Evangelistic: http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e900691004213b8049094abdb&id=472e888079&e=ed7bc02419

1. Warriors Redefine the Superteam Again with DeMarcus Cousins Signing