Amazing!
Map: The salary you need to buy a home in 27 U.S. cities – The Washington Post
On a national scale, a buyer who puts 20 percent down would need to earn a salary of $48,604 to afford the median-priced home in America. But that total varies a lot from city to city. Pittsburgh, Cleveland, St. Louis and Cincinnati rank as the most affordable metros in which to buy a new home – HSH.com estimates that you can buy the median home while making less than $34,000 – while New York, Los Angeles and San Diego are at the high end, requiring salaries of nearly $90,000 or more. But the most expensive city by far is San Francisco, where the site estimates you would need to make $142,448 to buy the median home in the area.
America’s infrastructure woes are no joke: John Oliver takes on infrastructure | Brookings Instituti on
From his 3/1/2015 show…
http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2015/03/06-americas-infrastructure-woes-puentes
The Stafford Act plays a key role in House of Cards. Here’s how that law works. – Vox
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/1/8129497/house-of-cards-stafford-act
The Stafford Act is having its Hollywood moment.
Passed in 1988, near the end of the Reagan administration, the act was meant to organize federal responses to national disasters and emergencies. Three decades later, it’s now playing a central role in the new season of House of Cards.
Americans are making a big mistake about health care – Vox
http://www.vox.com/2015/3/1/8125785/insurance-subsidy-poll
The way people in the policy community see it, this is totally backwards. Almost everyone who has health insurance in the United States gets help from the government to afford it. For the elderly, that’s Medicare. For the disabled and the poor, that’s Medicaid. For full-time workers it’s the tax subsidy for employer-provided health insurance.
Some of what you see in this poll is a simple misunderstanding — older Americans either don’t know what Medicare is or mistakenly believe they have "paid for" their benefits with earlier taxes.
But Americans who get insurance from their jobs are also benefitting from a massive government program. A program whose existence is hidden from sight but is nonetheless quite real and substantial.
Demographics of Key Social Networking Platforms | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/09/demographics-of-key-social-networking-platforms-2/
71% of adult internet users/58% of entire adult population
Fully 71% of online adults use Facebook, a proportion unchanged from August 2013. Usage among seniors continues to increase. Some 56% of internet users ages 65 and older now use Facebook, up from 45% who did so in late 2013 and 35% who did so in late 2012. Women are also particularly likely to use Facebook compared with men, a trend that continues from prior years.
Are These The Eight Worst PowerPoints The Government Has Ever Produced? | Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/powerpoint-slides-pentagon-ash-carter
We’ve all sat through PowerPoint presentations that suffocate any chance for deep thought, let alone comprehension. But defense and intelligence agencies are in their own league when it comes to slide-based warfare.
Here’s How The Academy Chooses The Best Picture | FiveThirtyEight
Interesting about how they use the IRV system!
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/academy-awards-best-picture-instant-runoff/
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences began allowing more than five films to be nominated for best picture, in 2009, it also changed the way the votes were counted. The system is called instant-runoff voting, and it’s designed so that the film preferred by the widest consensus of Academy voters wins.
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