Climate Central has your answer with their post, Here’s How Frost-Free Season Affects Allergy Season (4/4/18). You will find a drop down menu to produce graphs like this one for Grand Rapids, which has seen as average increase of about 25 frost free days. On the downside, A study sampling 10 locations …
Read More »Are teachers being paid fairly?
An August 2016 report by EPI, The teacher pay gap is wider than ever (8/9/16 by Allegretto and Mishel), suggests not. For instance, the graph here shows that teachers are paid 23% less than other college graduates in 2015 and the gap has been increasing since 1980. Average weekly wages …
Read More »What is known about world income inequality?
The World Inequality Report 2018 provides a complete summary of world income inequality. The executive summary contains thirteen charts to explore such as the one here. The poorest half of the global population has seen its income grow significantly thanks to high growth in Asia (particularly in China and India). …
Read More »How do NYC securities employee bonuses compare to U.S. household income?
Statista has your answer with their post Wall Street Bonuses Outpace Household Income (3/28/18 by Dyfed Loesche) and their chart here. Compared to the average U.S. household income this is quite some money, keeping in mind these are payments on top of the regular pay. In 2016, the average Wall …
Read More »What is the connection between race and generational income mobility?
The recent paper, Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective, by the Equal Opportunity Project, has the answer and makes the data available. The executive summary has seven key findings, here are three: Finding #1: Hispanic Americans are moving up in the income distribution across generations, while Black …
Read More »How is climate change impacting Easter Island?
A New York Times article, Easter Island Is Eroding, (3/15/18 by Casey and Haner) has the answer. Tourists usually begin their days in Tongariki, where they gather to watch the sunrise from behind a line of monoliths facing inland. Groups split off to Anakena, the island’s one sandy beach, or to …
Read More »Where can we find basic climate information?
The answer is Climate Kids by NASA. Climate kids is aimed at, well, kids, but it serves as a fantastic primer of basic climate science. For example, under Big Questions and then How do we know the climate is changing? we find short explanations of the following questions (with links …
Read More »Is wage inequality growing?
The EPI article, The State of American Wages 2017 by Elise Gould, has a full summary of growing wage inequality. A few of their key findings: From 2000 to 2017, wage growth was strongest for the highest-wage workers, continuing the trend in rising wage inequality over the last four decades. While wage …
Read More »When and where do tornadoes occur?
The distribution of occurrences of tornadoes by time of day is presented in the accompanying graph from NOAA’s Historical Records and Trends page for tornadoes, which is a good example of a skewed distribution. Because most tornadoes are related to the strength of a thunderstorm, and thunderstorms normally gain most of …
Read More »Are tornadoes on the rise in the U.S.?
NOAA has an annual tornado report that contains the graph here. The graphs suggests an increase. In contrast to the previous four years, tornado activity across the U.S. during 2017 was above average. During January-September there were 1,262 confirmed tornadoes with 144 preliminary tornado reports still pending confirmation for October-December. …
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