Random links
- Social networking sites and politics
- How do social networking sites impact the types of political discussions people engage in?
- Please, Finally, End the Penny
- Some interesting factoids in this piece: ”The United States abandoned its own most worthless coin, the half-cent, in 1857, when a half-cent was worth more than a dime is today. By most measures, a quarter today has less buying power than a U.S. penny did in 1940.”
- Tory budget slashes $5.2-billion in spending, gives boomers a pass on OAS
- An interesting pair of sentences: ”The government says the changes are needed so the program – and Ottawa’s bottom line – are not overwhelmed by the large baby-boom generation of Canadians born between 1946 and 1964. Yet all but the tail end of this cohort will be protected from the higher eligibility age, which will be phased in between 2023 and 2029.“
- Marital Status and the Recession
- "... employment rates fell so much more for these unmarried women who were heads of household. Employment per capita fell 4.7 percentage points among them, compared with 1.6 percentage points among married women. The job-loss gap associated with marital status turns out to be as large as the more widely recognized job loss gap associated with gender."