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Can't sleep? Mattresses, masks and supplements say they can help.

by Samantha Fields
Jan 22, 2024
A third of adults regularly get too little sleep. "Sleep tech" and other specialized products are growing, multibillion-dollar industries.
An artificial intelligence-capable mattress at the 2024 Consumer Electronics Show. A study found people are willing to spend up to 14% of their income trying to get better sleep.
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Economic Anxiety Index®

The cost of sleep deprivation

by Erika Beras
Nov 23, 2020
A RAND study found that lack of sleep costs the U.S. about $411 billion a year in lost productivity.
Right now, more than a third of Americans are feeling anxious and losing sleep as a result, according to the most recent Marketplace-Edison Research Poll.
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Weighted blanket makers say they have our anxiety covered

by Amy Scott
Sep 1, 2020
If one consumer product could sum up our collective anxiety, this might be it.
The U.S. market for weighted blankets is about $220 million a year, but it's just a slice of a much bigger sleep market.
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Sleeping like a baby is a $325 million industry

by Jenny Gold
Jan 16, 2017
Parents craving sleep are willing to try all sorts of gizmos, but experts caution against buying anything that makes claims about SIDS
Since Arlo was born three months ago his parents, Lindsay Barrick and  Jerry Talkington, haven’t gotten much sleep.
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Monsnoozin’

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Jul 24, 2015
Quartz and Marketplace look at irregular sleep schedules, the economic effects of monsoon weather on India and a 'sleeping sickness' in Kazakhstan.
About 40 percent of Americans get less than seven hours of sleep a night.
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The economics.... of sleep?

by Molly Wood
Jul 16, 2015
'Early to bed, early to rise' really does have a wealth effect, researchers find.
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Debate over sleep holds up new trucking regulations

by Miles Bryan
May 11, 2015
The industry is fighting a federal rule that prescribes when truckers must sleep.
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Arianna Huffington wants you to sleep more

by Kai Ryssdal
Mar 13, 2015
Media Guru Arianna Huffington touts the importance of sleep in her latest book
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Learning Curve

One cost of starting high school later in the morning

by Tim Fitzsimons
Feb 11, 2015
Hitting the snooze button has its problems.
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Technology can't make you fall asleep

by Molly Wood
Jan 22, 2015
... but it might help you sleep better.
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