For nearly two decades, Stamford resident Marian Salzman, CEO of New York City-based Havas PR North America, has released an annual report with predictions for the coming year. Her report covers “the next big things on a wide range of topics” and this year finds marijuana, family, income inequality and climate change ripe for emerging trends.
In 2015, Salzman says:
Ӣ Marijuana chatter will come. As a state with medical marijuana dispensaries, Connecticut will get in on the national cannabis edibles trend.
Ӣ Healing, forgiveness and redefining family life will be helped by the Family and Medical Leave Act, implemented in January 2009, and by a higher minimum wage, $8.70 to $9.15 per hour beginning Jan. 1.
”¢ Immigration, which isn’t just an issue in the four states bordering Mexico.
Ӣ Connecticut will remain at the forefront of economic discrepancy. The Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk area is tops in the U.S. for income inequality.
Ӣ We will live climate change firsthand. Hurricane Sandy and a warmer-than-average winter are leading an increasing number of state residents to realize climate change might not be unrelated to human behavior.
Salzman blogs for the Huffington Post, Forbes.com and CNBC, plus various company blogs. Among the topics she cited from 2014 were seat-squeeze rage and apple cider remedies.
The report is titled “10 Trends for 2015” and is available at prosumer-report.com.
