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Wages
In a well-meaning article from MIT, a “living wage calculator” showed the difference between the current minimum wage in various states and the costs of living under different circumstances in the different counties in those states. The project was designed … Continue reading
Posted in Economics in Practice
Tagged children, divorce, job, living wage, minimum wage, poverty, resilience, wages, welfare, work
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Holiday Hits and Misses
I love the Christmas season, and if the weather has several chilly days in a row, so much the better. I get a lot of enjoyment in finding unique gifts for the unique people in my life, I even like … Continue reading
Posted in Life (mainly mine)
Tagged adapter, caroling, children, chilly, Christmas, commute, family, fudge, gifts, girlfriend, grateful, icicles, iPhone, loving, ornament, podcast, Primary, radio, recipe, Reisen, Savior, scissors, season, sing, Sunday, tree, UPS, WalMart, weather, worship, wrapping
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Disposable
We live in a disposable age and our mindset has kept pace. It seems to me that nobody plays for keeps anymore. This is much deeper than opting for plastic and paper diapers over cloth, and using paper towels instead … Continue reading
Posted in Ramblings
Tagged Anne Tyler, appliance, car, children, degree, diapers, disposable, divorce, education, effort, friendship, furniture, gathering, house, knowledge, marriage, napkins, orphan, paper, participant, plastic, relationship, Saint Maybe, trading, university
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Is “Pro-Life” the same as “Anti-Abortion”?
We have allowed the press to define this debate, to the point where it is no longer a debate with an honest exchange of respected ideas, but a contentious verbal battle with no progress. Many who pompously title themselves “pro-life” … Continue reading
Posted in Growth (Evidence of Life)
Tagged abortion, baby, burden, care, children, choice, conversation, debate, disrespect, dominion, earth, emotional, existence, experience, financial, friend, God, government, human, improvement, kingdom, life, media, minister, mistake, nature, need, neighbor, nurture, opportunity, poise, potential, press, pro-choice, pro-life, procreative, program, relationship, respect, responsibility, reverence, Roe v. Wade, Savior, spiritual, symptom, teaching, woman
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Good Manners
It’s been a while since I put anything up here. I am so sorry. It was really bad manners to neglect my devoted readers. I live down here in the South, in the land of good manners. Children are taught at a … Continue reading
Posted in Growth (Evidence of Life)
Tagged address, adults, attire, brain, children, comfortable, communicate, dinner, formal, grammatically, Ma’am, manners, neglect, respect, Sir, social media
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