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Economics Links

Dec 27, 2013

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in Africa, Business, Capitalism and Markets, Crime, Culture, Economics, Environment, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Links – Economics, Poverty, Race, Sociology, Technology, Technology (Energy), Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

1. Carpe Diem: 5 Reasons Why 2013 Was The Best Year In Human History Fewer people are dying young, and more are living longer. … Global economic growth in the past five decades has dramatically reduced poverty and made people around the world happier. … War is becoming rarer and less deadly. … Rates of…
Economics Links

Dec 6, 2013

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in Capitalism and Markets, Demography, Economics, Gender and Sex, Health and Medicine, Human Progress, Links – Economics, Poverty, Public Policy, Sociology, Technology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Wealth and Income, Weatlh and Income Distribution

1. Poor and Middle Class Incomes Have Increased Significantly "… Using this more sophisticated cost-of-living adjustment, which is preferred by the Congressional Budget Office and Federal Reserve Board, the increase in median household income was not 5 percent but 16 percent from 1979 to 2012. In 2007, like 1979 a peak in the business cycle,…