The economic boycott gives the Castros a fig leaf to hide behind as their entire population wallows in poverty. Yes, they are poor, and they are poor because of communism, but the Castros are able to blame the failure of their country on the US embargo. But they have free health care!
But it also forces faster-moving buses to hang back and wait for the less-agile streetcars, prolonging commutes for the much larger population of bus riders. Back in 2010, District transportation officials estimated that 1,500 people a day will ride streetcars on the H Street/Benning Road lin...
Coyote Creek South is located on Kalapuya-Ilihi, the traditional homelands of the Kalapuya peoples. During the 1850s, after devastating population decline due to epidemics earlier in the century, the Kalapuyans were forcibly removed from their indigenous land by the United States government and ...
I took roughly the same data and started each line two years earlier, so that my first year is two years ahead of his graph and the zero year in my graph is the same as the zero point in Drum's chart. His data is better in the sense that he has quarterly data and I only have ...
Unfortunately for the struggling Venezuelan population, the time has arrived and as AP reported over the weekend, Venezuela "will begin installing 20,000 fingerprint scanners at supermarkets nationwide in a bid to stamp out hoarding and panic buying" as of this moment. The government has been sele...
(though not unique) in that its suburbs are actually denser than the city itself. According to the 2010 census, the city of Phoenix has about 2,800 people per square mile, while its suburbs have nearly 3,500 people per square mile. With both jobs and population spread out, the region ...
U.S. population has been moving from cold Northeastern states to the warmer Southwestern states, our findings have implications for understanding the causes of long-term increases in life expectancy. We calculate that every year, 5,400 deaths are delayed by changes in exposure to cold temperature...
California has low per capita electricity consumptions primarily for three reasons: 1) it has the mildest climate in the country (when weighted for population location) 2) it hasamong the ten highest state-average electricity prices in the countryand 3) its regulatory regime has driven a dispro...
and knew that a fair market price for that contract would be $6 million per year. It ended up paying the buying group $15 million per year for the 15-year contract, representing a subsidy of $9 million a year for 15 years. By the way, the present value of $9 million over 15 year...
other years, but other years might have had different weather, different population, and a million other small differences that affect the outcome. Sorting through all these literally millions of changing variables to get the net effect of hosting the Superbowl is hard (and in fact for the last...