The Katu.com article Pizza business and government fight over food stamp use talks about how the federal government does not allow Little Ceasar’s franchises to sell unbaked pizza to food stamp recipients, after first requiring them to spend “thousands” to install equipment and get ready to do just that. At the end of the article, [...]
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Bad Math in Oregon Foodstamp Article
Posted in Misleading Statistics on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Is It Fair?
Posted in Misleading Statistics on February 11, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Stephen Moore posted an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal titled Fairness Quiz. He asks a lot of questions of whether we think it’s fair. Here are some of them, with my comments attached. Is it fair that the richest 1% of Americans pay nearly 40% of all federal income taxes, and the richest [...]
World’s Richest Countries
Posted in Misleading Statistics on November 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The magazine The Economist of Nov 5, 2011 shows this chart of the world’s richest countries on page 56: I suspect that the average American on the street will not be able to point to most of these countries on a map. I admit I would have had problems with Qatar, although I would have [...]
