Energy prices are high. For all intents and purposes, they are going to stay high – maybe get higher. While the price of oil might fall back to a previously unimaginable $100 per barrel, the long term trend is going to be for it to increase. Why? Because demand is increasing much faster than supply [...]
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Bernie Hayden, over at Maryland On My Mind, writes a nice post about jobs and education questioning whether our education system is preparing people for the jobs that are available. There are plenty of careers where there are far more jobs than qualified people to fill them. Two stand out here in Maryland – education and [...] The Milken Institute recently released their 2008 State Technology and Science Index recently. The Index ranks states in their ability to succeed in the technology-driven information age. Maryland was ranked number two, just behind Masschusetts. The author of the study pointed out that states that invest in their science and technology assets are creating [...] Certainly one of the issues on everyone's mind these days is the price of gasoline and the price of oil. The runup in the price of both over the past couple of years has everyone wringing their hands and looking for solutions. Every politician from the local dogcatcher to the President of the United [...] Average incomes on the Shore and in Western Maryland are much lower than in the Baltimore/Washington corridor and poverty rates are, by and large, higher. What, if anything, can or ought to be done about that? Not surprisingly, I have some suggestions. I've written often here about the relationship between education and income. Maryland, as a [...] In the last post we talked about the wide discrepancies in wage rates in Maryland. The majority of Marylanders, who live in the densely-populated areas around Baltimore and Washington, earn wages that are considerably higher than average while those who live in the less-populated areas of Western Maryland and the Eastern Shore receive much lower than average [...] We were all pleased to see the announcement from the Census Bureau last year that Maryland had become the wealthiest state in the country as measured by median household income ($65,144) – edging out New Jersey and Connecticut. At the other end of the list, Mississippi ($34,473), West Virginia and Arkansas were the poorest. I've [...] |
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