41% of Americans Don’t Use Cash for Weekly Purchases

A person hold out a fifty-dollar bill for payment, a woman in the background holds a bouquet of yellow tulips.

In a typical week, four in 10 American adults go “cashless”, a sharp increase from 29% in 2018 and 24% in 2015, according to a recent survey by Pew Research Center.

Only 14% of Americans say all or almost all of their purchases are made with cash in a typical week. And almost 60% of Americans say some of their purchases are paid using cash.

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Which Features are Free vs. Paid in the WordPress Jetpack Plugin?

Jetpack plugin home page highlighting security, performance, and growth tools made for WordPress sites by the WordPress experts.

I’ve been using the WordPress Jetpack plugin for so many years, I can never remember which features are free and which ones are paid.

A couple weeks ago, I searched the Jetpack site trying to find a page that lists all features as paid or free.

And I couldn’t find it.

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Photo of the Week: Dashing and Fierce Merlin

Watching about 600 European Starlings in the field as the flock slowly rose and flew from one side of the road to the other was mesmerizing. The sky was blue, sun was bright, and a cool breeze blew in from the west. Suddenly, the starlings scattered in all directions. Flying quickly away from the field… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Dashing and Fierce Merlin