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by bwhite 17y ago
It's an age-cession, too. Overall teenage (16-19) employment is something like 24% now. For white teenagers it's now 21% (compare with an unemployment rate in the low to mid teens over the past 10 years) and 39% (!) for black teenagers (com
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by bwhite 17y ago
Yes: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm#concepts Misfortunate Mary who worked full time last month and made $10k in salary and benefits gets fired but reports that she now works two hours/month at a local hot dog stand making a total of
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by bwhite 17y ago
I think the intention of the graph is to illustrate that the unemployment rate for men has increased at about twice the rate as the unemployment rate for women. And it's successful.
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by bwhite 17y ago
No, the graph makes it looks like from a baseline of about 5% a year and a half ago, unemployment for women has gone up about 60% while unemployment for men has gone up about 100% -- or not quite double the increase. It's a fair representat
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by bwhite 17y ago
It is certainly possible for someone with a higher income to be taxed at an overall rate that's less than the overall rate of someone with a lower income. It is true that this subverts the plain-meaning intention of the tax system (though I
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by bwhite 17y ago
This isn't right. Property tax is almost always in proportion to the area of living space on the property. Even anti-redistributionists acknowledge that taking 10% of the income of someone making $5e5 will reduce that person's lifestyle les
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by bwhite 17y ago
The speculative froth of summer 2008 aside, the average cost of oil is not skyrocketing ( http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/fsheets/real_prices.htm... and http://inflationdata.com/inflation/images/charts/Oil/Inflati... ). Of course, th
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by bwhite 17y ago
TANSTAAFL. The solutions for peak oil, global warming, etc are extremely costly. For example, the Waxman-Markey bill would impose significant indirect regulatory costs in addition to making electricity substantially more expensive ( http://
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by bwhite 17y ago
I first read about this is The Hacker's Dictionary. It contained an article about the amorphous definition of "hack" that includes this story and other classics: http://www.ccil.org/jargon/jargon_44.html
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by bwhite 17y ago
Hear, hear. There is no shortage of examples in which your dog's getting better service and treatment than you because of government interference. "This is a country in which dogs can get a hip replacement in under a week and in which human
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by bwhite 17y ago
TANSTAAFL. We don't just punt money into Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc -- we exchange it for oil which we then use productively. By definition, if we didn't want the oil more than the money (or anything else we could get for that money) we woul
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by bwhite 17y ago
From their perspective, hiding stuff like this in large appropriation bills is a feature, not a bug. Sadly.
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by bwhite 17y ago
This is a geo-politically complex situation. Assume this program was wildly successful. All of a sudden Saudi Arabia is destitute; Venezuela is broke; Russia is impoverished; Mexico is crippled; Nigeria is even poorer than it is now. Has th
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by bwhite 17y ago
You're looking at this backwards. Current pilots love the certification process, it is a barrier to entry and a way to achieve seniority faster. See http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01... for the story about how t
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by bwhite 17y ago
Mod parent up. This is why Bjorn Lomborg is reviled: not because he doubts that anthropogenic global warming is for real, but because he has the temerity to suggest that the cure (spending a kajillion dollars to achieve relatively small cha
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by bwhite 17y ago
It is in the Appropriations Act of 2009 / S202, currently in revision 6: http://www.ncleg.net/Sessions/2009/Bills/Senate/HTML/S202v6.... See sections 27C.2 and 27C.3.