Tuesday's assorted links

Racial spending gaps, GDP, bitcoin externalities, guaranteed income, and personal economics

Hi, y’all! Here are 5 stories that caught my attention recently that I think you’d also enjoy reading:

1. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis looks at whether there is a racial gap in school district spending.

2. A breakdown of the components of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). [Podcast]

3. An Appalachian town was told a bitcoin mine would bring an economic boom, but it got noise pollution and an eyesore instead.

4. Baltimore’s guaranteed income pilot is among the first to focus on health influence.

5. Jose Fernandez shares his findings on topics like autism, suicide, and health. [Podcast]

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Yesterday I wrote about the announcement of lower internet prices for low-income families in the United States. Check it out here:

The Government’s Role in Expanding Broadband Access

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Week 18 is over and I’m up to 14 books for the year. I just finished a book on creating more informative infographics, which I hope I can use in my classes to help students with their data visualizations. Sometimes my students think what we’re doing falls more in line with graphic design (it doesn’t), but I hope that by referencing the Wall Street Journal’s guide they’ll realize how important good visualizations are!

I also just finished The Thursday Morning Murder Club, which focuses on a group of retirement home residents who solve murders in their English town. I actually saw the sequel at Barns & Noble a couple of months ago and that’s what convinced me to read the first book in the series. It was a pretty traditional murder mystery but starred senior citizen detectives instead.