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Neighborhood income and rent maps of U.S. cities

Neighborhood income and rent maps of U.S. cities
Fast Company: "See where the money lives -- and where it doesn't -- in your city" No matter where you live, you probably already have some sort of mental map of where the money resides in your city. It’s one of those data sets you subconsciously start collecting the moment you move somewhere. At first, it’s something you sense in only the broadest geographic terms--understanding that the north side of the city is generally poorer than the rest of it, say--but with time and experience, the map becomes more refined, filled in on the level of neighborhood and street. How well do these perceptions of income line up with reality? That’s what this website shows us.

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The Part-Time Employment Ratio: Up Slightly in March Let's take a close look at Friday's employment report numbers on Full and Part-Time Employment. Buried near the bottom of Table A-9 of the government's Employment Situation Summary are the numbers for Full- and Part-Time Workers, with 35-or-more hours as the arbitrary divide between the two categories. The Labor Department has been collecting this since 1968, a time when only 13.5% of US employees were part-timers. 1 - 20 of 10934 from the Library of Congress ↓ Refine your search Map of the Iowa Central Air Line Rail Road and its connections. Scale ca. 1:1,550,000. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1857.

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