Just because the holidays have come and gone does not mean the holiday shopping season is over. Its final act is actually just beginning.

Many people have unwanted gifts they’d like to return, which can lead to more shopping plus a fair amount of frustration. Plenty of us also have holiday debt to deal with and financial resolutions we’re trying to stick to.

WalletHub conducted a nationally representative poll of over 860 people in the U.S. to see what types of resolutions folks are making for 2021, especially in terms of personal finance. We also asked about people’s motivations for making resolutions, their expectations of success and much more. This survey took place from November 16 to November 20, 2020. You can find the complete results in the following infographic.

Key Stats

• Almost 60% of Americans say their New Year’s resolutions will be influenced by COVID-19.
• 43M Americans think New Year’s will never be the same due to COVID-19.
• 62% of Americans think that New Year’s resolutions will be harder to keep in 2021 than 2020.
• 7 in 10 people admit they’ve cheated on a New Year’s resolution before.

WalletHub conducted a nationally representative survey of U.S. consumers to see what people are planning to buy this holiday season, how much they’re going to spend, how the coronavirus pandemic is affecting their plans and more. You can find a handful of key findings below, followed by an infographic with complete results.

Key Stats

• 45% of people will start shopping for the holidays earlier this year.
• Almost 60% of people say they’ll pay for their holiday purchases in full by the due date.
• Almost 41 million Americans still have credit card debt from last holiday season.
• Almost 102 million consumers will spend less on holidays this year than last year.
• 101 million people would pay extra for a coronavirus vaccine.
• 31% more young adults than baby boomers plan to be more charitable this year.

Diabetes costs the U.S. economy $295 billion per year, making it one of the country’s most expensive diseases. But the damage obviously extends well beyond dollars and cents. Diabetes is the 7th most deadly disease in the U.S., claiming over 80,000 lives per year and becoming a daily concern for millions more people.

Yet the roughly 9 in 10 Americans who don’t have diabetes probably don’t understand the full extent of the struggle. The same can be said of the over 1 in 5 people with diabetes who don’t know they have it.

WalletHub’s nationally representative 2020 Military Money Survey in honor of Veteran’s Day found that 75% of Americans believe military families are under more financial stress than the average family, at a time when most people are reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. The survey also found that nearly 50% of people feel that poor financial literacy among military personnel is a threat to national security, with most adding that the military isn’t doing enough about the problem. You can check out the complete findings in the infographic below, including whether Americans think frontline healthcare workers or police and military personnel should be paid more.

Key Stats

• 75% of Americans agree that military families experience more financial stress than the average family.
• Nearly 1 in 2 people think that poor financial literacy among military personnel is a threat to national security, 40% more than in 2019.
• 74% of Americans don’t think that the military does enough to teach financial literacy.
• 78% of military members don’t think they should have to pay interest on debt when deployed to a war zone.
• 46% of people think that frontline healthcare workers should be paid more than members of the military and police officers.

Even with checks and balances, four years of executive power can change the country – perhaps even the course of history – considerably. As a result, every presidential election, from FDR’s near-sweep of Republican Alf Randolph in 1936 to the Supreme Court’s ruling in 2000’s Bush v. Gore nail-biter, matters a great deal and is, indeed, historic. This one feels especially important, too, set against the backdrop of COVID-19, a crucial Supreme Court nomination and a fiercely divided electorate.

On the left, we have the oldest presidential candidate ever, at 77 years old. And on the right, we have the oldest president ever, a 74-year-old real-estate mogul and former reality TV star whose brash, off-the-cuff style has captivated the country, though not always in a good way.

Donald Trump surprised pollsters when he won the 2016 presidential election over his rival Hillary Clinton, but will he be able to replicate that success in 2020 against Democratic challenger Joe Biden? More importantly – what would four more years of a Trump presidency look like for taxes, the stock market, education, health care, the COVID-19 response and more? WalletHub explored all those topics and more to predict how a second Trump term might impact you, especially when it comes to your finances.

The Trump campaign's second term agenda has provided limited details regarding its economic priorities. Therefore, to assess President Trump’s economic plan we relied on the president’s statements and the fiscal proposals contained in his 2021 budget. Below, you can see our full data, along with additional commentary on each topic from a panel of experts.

On Jan. 20, 2021, either Donald Trump will be reinaugurated or Democratic nominee Joe Biden will take his place. How would America change when it comes to taxes, health care, the minimum wage, COVID-19 and more if Biden wins the election and makes Trump a one-term president? In this report, WalletHub sought to answer that question, with a heavy emphasis on the financial consequences of a Biden presidency.

Below, you can see WalletHub’s full data and predictions on things like how the S&P 500 and unemployment rate would change with Joe Biden in charge. For each of our overall categories, we also sought out additional commentary from a panel of experts.

WalletHub’s nationally representative Halloween Spending & Financial Fears Survey found that 22 million more people are having nightmares about money problems this year than last year, and that roughly 13 million more people are scared about their kids’ financial future. The survey also includes findings on how politicians prey on people’s financial fears, whether people consider their finances a horror show, and more. The complete results are laid out in the following infographic.

Key Stats

• 22M more people have nightmares about money this year than last year.
• Almost 90% of Americans think that politicians prey on peoples’ financial fears.
• Roughly 13M more people are scared about their kids’ financial futures this year than last year.
• Nearly 40% of people are more afraid of credit card debt than the coronavirus.
• Almost a third of Americans think their finances are a horror show.
• 130M Americans think the coronavirus is the scariest thing about Halloween this year.