Although massive Super Bowl spending will pour into Atlanta, estimates of its economic benefit depend on whether you ask the Host Committee or an economist.
Confirming that children add to the gender pay gap, the motherhood penalty and the fatherhood bonus each create more of a spread between female and male earnings.
The size of a typical British wine glass has ballooned during the past 300 years. Close to 70 ml in 1700, now it is more than six times bigger. Where are we going? To glass, plate, and portion sizes. Wine…
At the end of 2011, Denmark got a fat tax. Today, they still cannot decide if it worked. The Skinny on Denmark’s Fat Tax Denmark’s lawmakers thought they had a “win-win” through a tax on food with more than 2.3%…
When ranking national healthcare, organizations use statistics that can be misleading because they are based on averages that include irrelevant data.
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