Income inequaltiy – Change the list

Last summer CCN asked readers to vote for topics from a long list of social issues. The five topics with the highest vote counts were selected for future stories. This became their “Change the List” series. This week they posted the piece on income inequality titled “The most unequal place in America.” While the issue […]

Posted by Larry on October 30th, 2013 | Comments Off on Income inequaltiy – Change the list Posted in Data Quality, Graphics Visualization, How to Lie with Statisics, Methodolgy Issues, The Media

Fast food, wages, and government subsidies

Last week the report titled: Fast Food, Poverty Wages – The Public cost of low-wage Jobs in the fast-food industry by Sylvia Allegretto, Marc Doussard, Dave Graham-Squire, Ken Jacobs, Dan Thompson and Jeremy Thompson was released. The report comes out of the University of Illinois and the University of California Berkley Labor Center. The report […]

Posted by Larry on October 22nd, 2013 | 1 Comment Posted in Methodolgy Issues, Statistical Literacy, Telling the Full Story, The Media, Where's the Data?

Income inequality measures – Palma vs Gini

I spotted an article and accompanying graphic yesterday on income inequality around the world. The authors chose to use a relatively new measure of inequality called the Palma measure. A quick Google search showed that the push seems to be coming from Alex Cobham and Andy Sumner at the Center for Global Development. The current […]

Posted by Larry on September 29th, 2013 | Comments Off on Income inequality measures – Palma vs Gini Posted in Methodolgy Issues, Telling the Full Story
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