Archive for the 'recession' Category
Mar
31
Health Care– #12 – Josh Hirth
March 31, 2015 | Leave a Comment
The NYT article titled, Obama Health Law: Who it helped most, gave me an interesting perspective on something that hasn’t been really talked about. It discussed whom the law helped the most. According to their findings the law helped the people who seemingly needed it most, blacks, Hispanics, and people who live in rural America. […]
Mar
24
Blog Post #10 Andrew Chen
March 24, 2015 | Leave a Comment
The New York Times article, just written six months ago, details the lack of employment among workers in their prime working years. Nearly three million workers has disappeared, due to retirement of baby boomers and others just flat-out quitting to return to the workforce. Not only did the number of jobs created decrease, but also […]
Mar
22
Blog Post#10 (Class 16) – Cheng Dong
March 22, 2015 | Leave a Comment
Class 16: Getting People to Work – Perhaps Encourage Them With Minimum Wage? The articles this time have presented to us a very negative perspective on our economy today. At the same time, they also presented us with a somewhat unexpected method of combating the income inequality that haunts us so today. Unlike what we […]
Mar
12
City Wide Analysis – #7 – Josh Hirth
March 12, 2015 | Leave a Comment
The City Wide Analysis discusses several different topics as it relates to housing in NY. It first discusses how housing construction has finally picked up since the recession and although it has not reached the same 15,000 units per year we have still grown to almost 12,500 units. It also discusses how by the end […]
