moorhosj

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by moorhosj 9y ago
Worst case for SS is that it pays out ~77% of benefits.[1] Can you provide sources for your claim that people will receive nothing? [1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/retirem...
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Illinois, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Connecticut all have pretty good schools. They are all in the top 15 for Pre-K through 12th grade. I'm not sure I would argue that your property tax dollars are going farther in Texas (ranked #33
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==Neither Wall Street nor Midtown are the preferred residence addresses in Manhattan for the most part. Same thing with Boston and Cambridge for the corresponding areas.== Do actual home values back up this assumption? Seems to me those are
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==Government finances are also a concern, many of the east and middle cities are also loaded up with tons of debt from years ago.== Can you explain this line of thinking? Is the assumption that taxes will have to increase to pay these liabi
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$2000 mortgage $140 lawn care $58 warranty Instead of paying the $1,800/month, you are now paying $2,200/month.
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This data shows "city center" with the largest increases. So it isn't just that they are focused in the "city", but the actual center of cities where jobs tend to be more plentiful, commute times tend to be lower an
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by moorhosj 9y ago
Your link isn't working for me, but if it is the same PEW data I found it only measures households with kids.[1] My initial post did say "parents", but what about the rising share of the population that is Dual-Income, No Kid
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The rise of dual-income households has put a premium on commute time (as it now impacts both parents). I believe this has helped drive the 50% outperformance of city-center real estate cited in the article. Autonomous vehicles would likely
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It is also true that having money makes it much easier to be more involved in your child’s life.
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The data keeps telling us too, maybe we should listen to it, even if it makes you feel uncomfortable.
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We do have many car-specific taxes and fees. Gasoline taxes, registration fees and paid parking all come to mind. That said, I agree with the broader point that we are too car-focused on transportation issues.
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This is a “hand wave argument”. Nobody is proposing how to alternatively solve the problem just claiming that there are unnamed “solutions”.
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The public owns the right-of-way, why shouldn’t they be compensated for renting it out for private use?
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In the 16 years since you left Chicago, the sky hasn't fallen. The percentage of population with a college degree is the highest of the country's 7 largest cities ( http://midwest.chicagofedblogs.org/?p=3048 ), whic
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Do you think MBAs should tell software engineers how to write code? Do you consider people who specialize in software development "wonks" or just experts?
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Who in DC is "telling everyone what to do"? We vote for them, they write the laws. That is how a representative democracy works. Under your vision of uneducated leaders, would those people still be "telling everyone what to d
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==I would not recommend moving to Chicago proper until Illinois gets their major fiscal problems worked out.== Recommending people move to Gary or Kenosha simply to avoid living in Chicago is pretty silly and a vast over-reaction. Markets h
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Was there a time when people thought the uneducated class should run the country? Were most of the founders part of the “educated class”?
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On the flip-side, if cost-cutting becomes important, a company may decide to invest in current employees skills in lieu of hiring new external employees. Any software that isn't mission-critical faces high risk in a cost-cutting enviro
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Chicago, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Nashville, Columbus all fit your criteria and have “cheap” housing. It’s a big country.
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ServiceNow doesn’t have a dividend, your other examples do. They are different types of investment, growth vs. value.
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B2B training should be recurring, large companies hire new classes of entry-level workers every year.
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Where did OP claim they didn’t have an issue with the Obama for America app?
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Would simple economics equate immigrants (Irish/Italian) with African American slaves?
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> few come to US public schools This is a list of universities with the most international students: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/news/25-us-univ... The vast majority of them are public schools.
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Traditional supply and demand economics implies open and equal information for buyer (employer) and seller (employee). For goods and services, there is transparency in the price of a product. In the labor relationship, the buyer (employer)
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Or it is the entire point. People can die slowly from natural causes or quickly from organ failures. Your argument would imply that we shouldn’t bother treating organ failures because we will all die of natural causes eventually anyways. On
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Can you provide a source (or data) that countries with stricter firing laws have more contract workers?
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If they “simply wouldn’t hire them in the first place” then they aren’t hiring the correct number of employees to maximize profit.
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We don't know if Trump himself was wiretapped, as he claimed. We do know that at least one of his campaign advisors had a FISA warrant approved by a federal judge. I'm not sure what relation this has to the fact that Trump-Russia

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