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May 1, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and interstate migration
May 1, 2017
Where Moving Matters

Although U.S. migration patterns show that the popularity of different states vary from year to year, the one consistent trend has been less moving.

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April 20, 2017
Weekly economic news roundup and manufacturing socks
April 20, 2017
What a Sock Can Teach Us

Manufacturing Socks in a Regional Cluster Helps Firms to Optimize Production

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April 17, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and pizza box recycling
April 17, 2017
The Robots Are Coming (With Your Pizza)

Transforming our pizza delivery, our factories, our warehouses and our cars, the many sides of robotics make it our newest frenemy.

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April 13, 2017
healthcare costs
April 13, 2017
The Jobs That Unemployed Men Don’t Want

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March 24, 2017
China's child policy and milk consumption
March 24, 2017
The Cost of a Comma

A missing Oxford comma became rather expensive when an appellate court used it to interpret Maine's overtime labor law in favor of a dairy's drivers.

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March 16, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and tart cherry prices
March 16, 2017
How a Cherry Orchard is About More Than Fruit

Representing far more than the agricultural labor force, a cherry orchard in Washington state displays the complexities of changing labor markets.

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March 14, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and gender pay gap
March 14, 2017
How to Google Gender Bias

Reflecting and encouraging gender bias against women, the occupational pictures displayed online at Google images can be inaccurate and unprofessional.

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March 9, 2017
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Hollywood gender gap
March 9, 2017
Finding the Hollywood Gender Gap (Everywhere)

From top stars' salaries, to the people who speak in films, the Hollywood gender gap can be found in most of the major movies.

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February 27, 2017
Weekly Roundup and vacation time
February 27, 2017
Deciding How Much To Work

Illustrated by the Expedia Vacation Deprivation survey, how much vacation time we take can depend on where we live and our reference points.

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February 1, 2017
future jobs
February 1, 2017
How a Caterpillar Changed a City

While Peoria used to be the perfect place to test new products like Pampers, now an uneven economic recovery took Taco Bell's new quesadilla to Toledo.

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January 20, 2017
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January 20, 2017
What We Think About Attractive Politicians

Using pictures, voters could identify conservative politicians because attractiveness, economic success and ideology tend to correlate.

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January 18, 2017
Coffee Conspicuous Consumption
January 18, 2017
The Hidden Part of Our Paycheck

While paychecks have increased, the numbers change when we look at all worker compensation ranging from office coffee to health insurance.

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