I read quite a few blogs about demographics and statistics. One of my favorites is FlowingData, which is written by Nathan Yau, a PhD candidate in statistics at UCLA. He focuses mainly on how researchers use data visualization to convey…
Most of us have heard talk about the Baby Boomers and how they will impact the U.S. population in the next few decades. The Boomers are the large group of people (76 million) who were born in the U.S. between…
When I heard a recent story about the wage gap between working mothers and other working women on NPR’s Tell Me More program, I was very impressed with the host of the show. UNM economist Kate Krause was one of three guests…
A recent article in the January 23, 2012 issue of National Review drew some interesting conclusions from a research paper by Casey B. Mulligan, a University of Chicago economist, about the growth of the social safety net during the ongoing…