Posts Tagged: poverty rate

Return to Data Connection: Stats on NE Education, Economy, Life

Posted January 9th, 2011 by John O. Harney & filed under News, Newslink, Newslink Topic.

For nearly 20 years, the print editions of The New England Journal of Higher Education (and its predecessor Connection) published a quarterly collection of facts and figures called "Data Connection."It was a sort of ripoff of the underrated Harper's Index. The key was to cleverly juxtapose pieces of interesting data, with no expressed overarching context. The glue, in our case, was that the items ...

Working Wives’ Contributions to Total Family Income Rising, Says Carsey Institute

Posted October 15th, 2010 by John O. Harney & filed under Newslink, Newslink Topic, Newslink Type.

Employed wives brought home 47% of their family's total earnings in 2009, up from 45% in 2008, according to a new report by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.That “marks the largest single-year increase in 15 years,” according to the report Wives as Breadwinners: Wives’ Share of Family Earnings Hits Historic High during the Second Year of the Great Recession...