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Category Archives: Economy
Debt Graphs
Debt Graphs
Trade Graphs
Trade with China, 1985-2013 (in millions of dollars) Total Trade Deficit, 1980-2013 (in millions of dollars) Source: U.S. Department of Commerce
Limits to Growth
Report (in English, .pdf file) on limits to growth on financial markets and consequential impacts, presented by the Global Sustainability Institute (GSI), Anglia Ruskin University.
Benefits of New Construction
Benefits of New Home Construction • Residential construction has a positive, direct impact on the U.S. economy. • For each new single-family home that is built, NAHB (National Association of Home Builders) estimates that three jobs are created. • Jobs are generated in the industries where lumber, concrete, lighting fixtures, … Continue reading
Low Paying Jobs
Extensive study (in English, .pdf file) by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, TX describing the loss over the last 20 years of middle-skill jobs in the U.S. labor market, a “barbell economy.”
Poor Suburbia
A report (in English only) by the Brookings Institution dated July 31, 2014 analyzing in great detail how, beginning in 2000, poverty has taken over the suburbs of the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States.
Inequality OXFAM 2014
OXFAM Report (in English) on inequality dated 01/20/2014; complete .pdf link used by permission, may take a few seconds to load.