Tuesday's Assorted Links
Chain restaurants, cotton prices, teachers vs. professors, salary transparency, & education majors
Hi, y’all! Here are 5 stories I learned about this week that you may also find interesting:
A look at the cities and states where chain restaurants dominate the food options for residents [The Washington Post]
Cotton prices are falling because of recession concerns and less-favorable exchange rates [The Wall Street Journal]
What Americans don’t understand about the difference between teachers and professors [The Atlantic]
California became the latest state to join a growing nationwide salary transparency movement [Bloomberg]
A dwindling number of new U.S. college graduates have a degree in education [Pew Research Center]
Yesterday I wrote about the economic benefits of subscription programs, and how behavioral economics might explain why people find themselves oversubscribed:
Week 39 is over and I’m still at 42 books for the year. Since I finished three books previously, I’m only just now starting new books and haven’t finished any of them yet. Hopefully, I’ll have an update for you next week.