Monthly Archives: 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 in California, where one reportedly has to work 129 hours a week to pay the landlord. This morsel of news comes to us courtesy of […]
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 economy isn’t doing so great, people tend to stay married because it’s expensive to split up, and there are studies that apparently back this up. […]
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 good news, proving that the aforementioned adage has some truth to it. Last week, about 382,000 visitors came to columbian.com (many of those are repeat […]