Paul Ryan Has a Presentation For Us
Gif by me. Charts by Mother Jones.
Behavioral Macro: Reagan’s gone. You’re old. Get over it.
“We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors”, inscribed inside the Jefferson Memorial
Though it is hard for anyone to take their eyes off of Europe these days, I…
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How the Great Recession Proved, Beyond a Doubt, the Value of a College Degree
The U.S. economic recovery has been anemic by almost any standard. But for Americans with just a high school degree or less, it’s been worse than anemic. It’s been non-existent.
This week, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce published a new report breaking down job growth during and after the Great Recession by education levels. And as it illustrates in the graph above, employment has been essentially flat since January 2010 for adults who never went to college.
Here’s what that translates too: For about 38 percent of working age Americans, there has been absolutely no growth in the job market since it bottomed out more than two years ago. To get a job, you’ve essentially had to hope someone else lost or left theirs.
Read more. [Image: Georgetown University]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8v0tlZoiz1qcokc4o1_500.png)
How the Great Recession Proved, Beyond a Doubt, the Value of a College Degree
The U.S. economic recovery has been anemic by almost any standard. But for Americans with just a high school degree or less, it’s been worse than anemic. It’s been non-existent.
This week, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce published a new report breaking down job growth during and after the Great Recession by education levels. And as it illustrates in the graph above, employment has been essentially flat since January 2010 for adults who never went to college.
Here’s what that translates too: For about 38 percent of working age Americans, there has been absolutely no growth in the job market since it bottomed out more than two years ago. To get a job, you’ve essentially had to hope someone else lost or left theirs.
Read more. [Image: Georgetown University]
This is a great pic-graph that shows how each dollar is split in health insurance costs.
How Your Privacy Will Be Invaded in 2012(via @Gawker)
In 2011, we watched as tech villains found creative new ways to violate our privacy. They misappropriated our social networking profiles, stalked us through our phones, and plucked secrets from our wifi networks. For 2012, they have even more surprises for us.
Hey, atheists. Drink that.
