Julia Shaw hit traffic pay dirt earlier this week when she took to Slate to argue that twenty-somethings should follow her lead and get married now. Shaw got married at 23, and it seems to have worked out well for her. Amanda Marcotte responded by throwing some cold hard data on that argument, noting that… Read more »
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Milwaukee Teachers Earn College Credits for Taking Class to Heal Their Racism
Milwaukee teachers can now earn credits by taking an after school class on how they can heal their racism. EAG.News reported: The Milwaukee Teachers Education Association is distributing a flyer to its members, encouraging them to attend a series of “Healing Racism Workshops.” Held over eight Wednesdays at the First Unitarian Society, the sessions will… Read more »
Earn an average salary? Covering your health spending will take 58.3 workdays
We usually think about the growth in health care spending in straight dollars, the number put toward medicine from one year to the next. Chris Conover has another way of going about it: He recently graphed the number of work days, paid at average wage, necessary to buy an average amount of health care. Right… Read more »
Sorry, nerds: Popular kids earn more in the long run
A new working paper may throw some cold water on any “Revenge of the Nerds” fantasies: It finds that more popular high school students earn more than their less-liked counterparts — even decades after graduation. Gabriella Conti, Gerritt Mueller, Andrea Galeotti and Stephen Pudney used data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study, a survey of over… Read more »