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Category Archives: Economy
Inequality Graphs
Wealth Graphs
U.S. Wages -2013
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Income Graphs -2014
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Trade Graphs
[google-translator] Trade with China, 1985-2013 (in millions of dollars) Total Trade Deficit, 1980-2013 (in millions of dollars) Source: U.S. Department of Commerce
Labor Graphs -2014
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Limits to Growth
[google-translator] 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
• 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, heating and cooling equipment, and … 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.”