PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, March 3, 2006

PR Newswire Broadcast Minute for Friday, March 3, 2006

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Federal Reserve Releases New Statistics About Credit Cards

The new Survey of Consumer Finances from the Federal Reserve gives a concerning snapshot of the finances of the average American family with growing debt and shrinking savings, reports LowCards.com.

According to the survey, forty-six-point-two percent of all families now carry a credit card balance. This is up from forty-four-point-four percent in 2001. Households are also carrying higher balances; the mean balance is now five thousand one hundred dollars (four thousand four hundred in 2001) and the median balance is two thousand two hundred dollars (two thousand dollars in 2001). The median income is currently forty three thousand two hundred dollars and the typical family's credit card balance is now almost five percent of their annual income.

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Katrina Doesn't Motivate Many Homeowners to Protect Their Investment

Despite Hurricane Katrina's devastation, a new survey says that most Americans are not very concerned about buying flood insurance for their homes. Only fourteen percent of Americans say they have purchased flood insurance for their primary residence, according to the survey of seven hundred homeowners, conducted for the Chubb Group of Insurance Companies by Opinion Research Corporation.

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Rock of Ages: Critics Name the Best All-Time Rock Songs

Everyone's got their list of all-time favorite rock 'n roll songs. But what about an expert opinion?

Satisfaction Magazine's ( http://www.satisfactionmag.com/ ) March-April issue turns back the clock to the glory years of rock 'n roll -- 1964 to 1980 -- and asks two generations of rock music writers and editors to name the best songs in ten categories. The lists range from the Best Air Guitar Songs to the best In the Mood, Dance and Rock Anthems. The tunes they selected include picks from the British Invasion, the San Francisco Sound and Southern rock, much of Motown and even some funk and reggae.

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With 'Singing Superstar', the world's first & largest online reality show, Four Pillar Media moves the exciting genre of reality programming onto the broad global stage of the Internet

Find out if you've got what it takes to be the world's first Internet singing superstar. Four Pillar Media has launched "Singing Superstar" -- The One Million Contestant Online Reality Show, the first & largest online reality show that takes reality programming onto the broad global stage of the Internet.

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PRNewswire -- March 3

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