by Gary Menger | Oct 13, 2022 | Maps
A few weeks ago, we examined the changes to the patterns of manufacturing employment and a natural follow-up is to consider the impacts on regional income. Income is particularly difficult to study over time since the geographic study areas change over time as does...
by Elyse Menger | Sep 29, 2022 | Employment Data, Maps
It is common knowledge that over the past few decades, the American economy has shifted away from manufacturing as we move towards being a service and information economy. At its peak in 1979, manufacturing employed over 19 million workers, which was over 22% of...
by Gary Menger | Sep 1, 2022 | Maps, Product Sneak Peek
Many data sources which appear to be national coverage at a specific geography level will often have missing records. There are a wide variety of methods which can be used to ‘infill’ missing records from the simplistic (assign it the average value or a geographically...
by Elyse Menger | Aug 25, 2022 | Maps
It’s back to school season, which makes us want to buy a bouquet of freshly sharpened pencils. But as children go back to school, the place where they are attending might be different. Of all of the things that have changed for children since the start of the Covid-19...
by Elyse Menger | Jun 30, 2022 | Maps
On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence, freeing the 13 colonies from the monarchy of Britain. For King George III, it was basically a declaration of war, but for the colonies, now free, independent states, it...
by Elyse Menger | Jun 9, 2022 | Current Events, Maps
In a classic good news/bad news scenario, the recently released Social Security and Medicare trustees report says that the funds won’t be going broke quite as quickly as feared. The bad news, of course, is that a deferral of the inevitable by a year or two doesn’t...
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