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Bleisure Travel Continues to Increase

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We first reported on bleisure travel , which is the the blending of business and leisure travel, back in 2015.    Key quote from their blog post  Do You Bleisure? Back in 2015 bleisure travel was considered something that millennials mostly did. bleisure” trips increased by 20% from 2016 to 2017.

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The Number of STEM and Accounting Grads Rapidly Increasing.

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Key quote from the article: Since the Great Recession, the number of STEM majors in bachelor’s degree-and-above programs has mushroomed, going from 388,000 graduates in 2009-10 to 550,000 in 2015-16—43% growth. Their blog provides in-depth articles and is also a great source of labor market data.

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$1 Million Ain't What it Used to Be - You Need More Than $5 Million to be a 1%er

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families with more than $5 million in investable assets exceeded 1 million for the first time in 2015.    The Penta article also has an interesting chart (below) showing the growth in numbers of really wealthy people from 2010 to 2015. The number of U.S.

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The Decline of Employee Training & The Rise of Side Gigs

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The chart below, which shows a decline in employer-provided and on-the-job training in recent decades, has been making the rounds in the economic blogs. It comes from the 2015 Economic Report of the President  (page 147), which is prepared annually by the President's Council of Economic Advisers for Congress.

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Coworking Forecast - 26,000 Spaces and 3.8 Million Members by 2020

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  Our 2015 was also too low, but better than 2014.  See our 2010 article What's the Definition of a Coworking Facility in our old Coworking Labs Blog for our definition.  Interestingly enough, by 2020 some Starbucks stores might be considered coworking spaces.  in the coming weeks.

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Tablet Sales Forecasted to Explode

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Small Business Blogs Entrepreneur Magazine Blog Entrepreneurship & Education at the Kauffman Foundation Fresh Inc. Thanks for doing your blog! When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it.   Sales in North America and Europe are expected to quadruple over this time frame. 

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