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Daily Archive for August 24th, 2009

Here is the whole thing. Below is the “top” 20: I honestly do not know what to say. 12 of the top 20 “donors” are unions. The top 20 “spent” nearly $600 million during this time. Part of me is shocked at how … little … this amount is, given the trillions of other people’s […]

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That’s News to Us

In a recent NBER Working Paper,”The Rug Rat Race,” authors Garey and Valeria A. Ramey find: After three decades of decline, the amount of time spent by parents on childcare in the U.S. began to rise dramatically in the mid-1990s. Moreover, the rise in childcare time was particularly pronounced among college-educated parents. Why would highly […]

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I Drive a Ford Expedition

Admitting such might get me uninvited to some parties locally, but it is true. But what if I told you it gets 64 miles per gallon, and under the right conditions it gets 96 miles per gallon? You’d say I was drinking motor fuel, but I am not lying. We have a growing family – […]

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