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U.S. factories punch above weight with solid job gains | Reuters - 2 views

www.reuters.com/...acturing-idUSBREA161V920140207

shared by Brendan Wewer on 10 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Manufacturing accounted for 18.5 percent of the 113,000 jobs created last month, up from a 10.67 percent share in December
  • increase last month was triple the sector's average monthly jobs gains of 7,000 in 2013
  • output grew at its fastest pace in nearly two years in the fourth quarter, hiring could cool off a bit.
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      Brendan Wewer on 10 Apr 14
       
      The pace of job increase in the secondary sector was very surprising. I suspected the increases to be at lower rates.
    • Brendan Wewer
      Brendan Wewer on 10 Apr 14
       
      I would involve the theme of globalization to this article. The production of automobiles are a large portion of job increase, and a growing portion of these car companies in the United States are foreign.
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      Brendan Wewer on 10 Apr 14
       
      The most prevalent question I thought of during the article would be whether these rates of growth can continue into the next few years?
    • Brendan Wewer
      Brendan Wewer on 10 Apr 14
       
      There are a few direct correlations between the industrial sector and the article. The article itself focuses on the increasing rates of manufacturing jobs in the United States. The article says: "(Job increase) output grew at its fastest pace in nearly two years in the fourth quarter..."
    • Brendan Wewer
      Brendan Wewer on 10 Apr 14
       
      Another current event relating to this article would be found at http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/04/22/detroit-sees-11-5-increase-in-manufacturing-jobs-filled-year-over-year/ in which the manufacturing industry has seen a significant growth in employment in Detroit.
  • President Barack Obama has set off a goal of 1 million manufacturing jobs to be created during his second term.
  • "To ensure that the optimism for this year can be fulfilled, manufacturers want policymakers to adopt pro-growth measures that will allow them to continue to expand," said Moutray
Brendan Wewer

Religious Affiliations and Percentage Practiced In the United States - 3 views

religions.pewforum.org/maps

Religion

shared by Brendan Wewer on 05 Dec 13 - Cached
  • Brendan Wewer on 06 Dec 13
     
    This map portrays the percentage of each state in which citizens answer whether religion is "very important" in their life or not. 2. Not only can we learn the number of citizens who truly value their religion in either a widespread or specific area, but also come to some conclusions on what possible dominant religion that area is ruled by. For example, the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Louisiana all have very high percentage rates in which the citizens say their religion is very important in their life. From prior knowledge we know this is around the "Bible Belt" area, and can assume that these states are predominately Protestant. In state such as California and Nevada, the percentage rates of the citizens who feel that religion is important to their life is relatively low. Especially on the West Coast, religion isn't well known. 3. A project I feel that would be beneficial and "real world" like would be to survey students at our own High School, asking the same question; whether religion is "very important" in their life. Of course you can't force students to take the survey, but it would be interesting to examine the results gathered from responses of fellow classmates.
  • Brendan Wewer on 06 Dec 13
     
    Nathan V- I really like the creativity of your project. There are definitely a few important correlations between amount of attendance at services and the predominant religion in the area. Great connection.
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State Proportion of the Indian-Born Population in the United States - 1 views

www.migrationinformation.org/...te_Metro_ACS2010_Indian_FB.pdf

shared by Brendan Wewer on 16 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Brendan Wewer on 16 Oct 13
     
    The highest amounts of Indian born populations are located near major cities. The greatest amounts are in New York City, Washington DC, and Chicago. It was interesting to observe where these people congregate. The greatest numbers occur in the larger cities. New York City has the highest population because when they emigrated from India, they most likely first stopped in NYC. Most families probably stayed in the area.
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South American Migrants - 1 views

www.migrationinformation.org/...outh_American_FB_MPI_May06.pdf

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  • Brendan Wewer on 16 Oct 13
     
    The most South Americans are distributed on the East Coast, especially in New Jersey and New York. Another heavily distributed area with South Americans is southeast Florida. Ports in Florida are the closest in relative distance, so this may be a contributing factor to the heavy numbers of South Americans in southern Florida.
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