Month: February 2014
Minimum wage, maximum effort
If you work a minimum wage job in Washington state, you'd need to work about 81 hours a week to pay the average monthly rent in this state. It's worse […]
Divorce and the economy
Earlier this week, something The Atlantic tweeted out caught my eye. It said, "Why More Divorces Are a Good Sign for the Economy." The basic premise is that when the […]
Last week one of newsiest-ever for columbian.com
There's a saying that "no news is good news," and last week proved to be one of the newsiest weeks we've ever seen here. Sadly, most of it was not […]