Economics:
- Check out this link to some research on child care spending multipliers in PA. (Hat tip to my Uncle Tom for the link!) Note that the multiplier is one of the highest compared to the ones from my last post about stimulus spending, which implies that public spending in early education is an effective way to stimulate the economy
- Here's a link to an economics paper by Art Rolnick and Rob Grunewald at the Minneapolis FED showing the extraordinary long-run returns of investing in early education
- Check out Paul Krugman's (my favorite NY Times columnist) take on the Wisconsin situation. I don't really know where I stand on this issue, but I think Krugman makes some good points.
Bikes:
- Haven't had anything about bikes on here lately, so here's another NY Times article about the (relatively) new bike lanes in NYC. This is from their room for debate series, with different folks arguing the issue. Note that Caroline Samponoro is the only one in the debate who backs up her article with statistics....
- Some cool stuff here about winter bikers in Minneapolis. I had to bike all through winter last year at Jimmy John's, and I've been biking to work this winter, too because I am too impatient to wait for the bus......
Coming soon:
In the coming weeks, my girlfriend Anna and I will be having a rap battle. I will win.
More on this as it develops....
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