A New Beltway Intrigue: Follow The Biden EPA Money
A New Beltway Intrigue: Follow The Biden EPA MoneyAuthored by James Varney via RealClearInvestigations,When the Biden administration announced $27 billion in environmental grants last April, it set the clock ticking on a predicament: how to get the unprecedented sums for the President's envisioned N
Some interesting links that I Tweeted about in the last week (I also post these on Mastodon, Threads, Newsmast, and Bluesky):An AI that can grade maths problems like a teacher: https://dataconomy.com/2025/03/07/can-ai-grade-math-like-a-teacher-research-says-yes/At least some tech executives recognis
Epidemiological and Geodemographic Patterns of Scorpionism in Ecuador: A Nationwide Analysis (2021–2024)AbstractBackgroundApproximately 1.2 million scorpion stings are reported globally each year, resulting in an estimated 3,000 deaths.在2500种已知的蝎子物种中，约有40种被认为具有医学意义。 In Ecuador, where at least 47 sco
Trump encourages followers to 'shut up about egg prices' — boosts op-ed blaming Biden for high costs
作为当选总统的唐纳德·特朗普总统坚持认为，他“赢得了选举”，并承诺要“把这些价格降低”。 triple the price over a short period of time, and I won an election based on that.”“We’re going to bring those prices way down,” Trump insisted.READ MORE: 'Not the barometer': Wall Street 'theory' on 'unbound Trump' warns he’s not 'concerned about markets
Coast Guard Shore Infrastructure: Project Backlogs Reportedly Exceed $7 Billion
Gao发现海岸警卫队拥有近40,000个海岸基础设施资产，其中包括船只站，码头和建筑物，并从中进行了运营。 In its internal annual 2023 report on its shore infrastructure, the Coast Guard rated the overall condition of its shore infrastructure as “mediocre to fair” and found that nearly half of these assets were operating beyond their expected service
Vehicles Sales Increase to 16.00 million SAAR in February
Wards Auto发布了他们对1月份轻型车辆销售的估计：尽管承受能力逆风，但美国轻型车的销售额在2月份上涨了3.4％（付费网站）。持续1月份的趋势，市场实力处于可负担性量表的两个远端，因为入场费和较低的cost cost cars and Comper-Cost Cuvs较大，而在大多数优质优先优先优点segments中相同。汽车的范围通常被认为是市场的面包和泡沫，非豪华的紧凑型汽车，CUV和SUV，都记录了大幅下降。 However, even when including lower-price vehicles, sales of non-luxury sedans and compa
Half of U.S workers Will Live in States with at Least a $15 Minimum Wage by 2027
到 2027 年，近一半的美国工人将生活在最低工资至少为 15 美元的州，经济政策研究所 在 2024 年的选举中，阿拉斯加和密苏里州选民批准了投票措施，以在未来几年内将他们的州最低工资提高到每小时 15 美元。现在 15 个州和华盛顿特区要么有要么 […]The post Half of U.S. Workers Will Live in States with at least a 15 $ minimum wage by 2027 first appeared on Angry Bear.
Here’s another chart from the JAMA study “The Anatomy of Health Care in the United States“: From it, we can compute average health spending by age, in 2004. I’ve shown that below alongside an estimate of what that spending is today, assuming 2.5% growth per year since 2004, which seems at least roug
You’d think we were all popping pills like crazy
But you’d be wrong: More than a quarter of Americans who take prescription drugs have skipped doses, split pills or cut other corners to save money in the last year, according to a new study by Consumer Reports… This telephone survey, of 1,154 adults who currently take at least one prescription drug
