Friday, March 4, 2016

$10.10 - $7.25 Minimum Wage should equal a $2.85 pay raise but is actually only $1.92. See the funny math here...

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I have written about this before but wanted to expand on it a bit. What is the effect on a minimum wage worker, who claims SNAP benefits a...
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Monday, February 1, 2016

A Loonie, A Dollar and an Apple. A nice story of fruit and currency exchange

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The Canadian dollar has taken real hit over the past few years in terms of its value relative to the US dollar. Here is an article on how...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Where did the jobs in education go during the recession? They moved downtown...

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More fun with education data... Below are data from the National Center for Education Statistics.   I just highligted the data between 200...

Number of Students at each grade level 2005-2014

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Having fun with data and working on my excel skills which are at the most basic level. I was looking at different categories of in the Cen...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Why is the US using all of Yellowstone National Park to grow corn for Ethanol?

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Sort of... This bar graph was derived from US Dept of Agriculture data.  I found it on Twitter HERE .  The numbers on the left are in ...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

The Relationship between the Minimum Wage and SNAP Benefits

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In light of current policy, how much does a minimum wage earning single mother with 2 dependent children  stand to gain/lose in SNAP benefit...
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Thursday, September 17, 2015

The Minimum Wage and Poverty Level Income. How much do I need to make? Numbers here...

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Here is a table of the official income levels the US Federal government uses to determine whether or not someone is classified as "poor...
Tuesday, June 9, 2015

US per Pupil Spending Adjusted for Purchasing Power. A shake up in the rankings!

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Dr. Tim Taylor (" The Conversable Economist ") has a post regarding "The Variation in US Spending Per Pupil". The data...
Thursday, May 14, 2015

Bourbon producers are over a barrel...

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Excellent article to use for a lesson on the basics of demand and supply and the variables that contribute to the respective curve shifting....
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

What is up (or down) with the price of milk?

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No big observation for this posting.  New data from USDA ERS  on the cost of producing milk came out today, and I was just looking at the nu...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Dollar Appreciates and the Price of Oil Decreases. WHY?

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The Wall Street Journal has an article today on the relationship between the strength of the US dollar and the price of crude oil: Oil Pri...
Friday, April 10, 2015

Part 2---Mini Lesson on the US Dollar vs The Euro.

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Yesterday I wrote a mini-lesson on the relationship between the US Dollar and the Euro: One year ago (April 9th, 2014) the  US dollar pri...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

Mini lesson--US Dollar vs the Euro.

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One year ago (April 9th, 2014) the US dollar price per Euro was $1.40.  Read that as it took $1.40 to "buy" 1 Euro dollar. If I w...
Wednesday, April 8, 2015

Low oil prices adversely affect recycling efforts. How does that happen?

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Plastic bottles that hold our favorite soft drink or choice of bottled water contain an input called  Polyethylene Terephthalate, or "P...
Monday, February 23, 2015

Credit is the fuel for an economy. The resulting debt is the exhaust that chocks it.

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That is the best analogy I can come up with at the moment. This wise posting is from The New Arthurian.  Go there to read the BEST stuf...
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