So say their donation records at least. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Indiana University, the types of charitable contributions people make vary greatly depending on their income. They broke down the charitable giving into 7 categories: Religious Education Arts Basic Needs (think homeless shelter/soup kitchen) Health Organizations Combined Purpose Other If you [...]

NASA is now but a shell of its former self. Relegated mostly to launching satellites and resuming the search for bacteria on foreign worlds. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but NASA won’t get the kind of pop culture attention it once did. Hopefully the private sector and step up, but the days of [...]

This week Obama announced a more aggressive version of his original plan to help people saddled with student loan debt.  The details are pretty simple, under the new plan you won’t have to pay more than 10% of your income towards student loans and after 20 years of doing that whatever else you owe is [...]

Back in September, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released their annual report on consumer expenditures.  It’s a comprehensive look at what American’s spend their money on.  The report covers data up through 2010, and compares it to prior years going back to 2006.  It’s quite interesting to see how our spending habits have changed since [...]

Obama had it made this spring.  Winning the reelection was going to be a breeze.  The economy was in (a slow) recovery, Bin Laden was dead, and Republicans were showing themselves to be no more useful than Democrats at running a chamber of Congress. But the tides have turned lately.  The economy weakened, Obama didn’t [...]

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, or that’s likely what Macy’s is telling you when you walk in the door.  Though I feel like it hit slower this year, the holiday shopping season is now upon us.  Yes, exactly two months from now the main holiday of the season, Christmas, takes place.  So [...]

This weekend, Bill and Melinda Gates published an article in the Wall Street Journal about the efforts of their foundation to improve education in the US. The foundation does a lot of things, and this article focused on how the proper measurement of what makes for a great teacher is critical to the future of [...]

The new iPhone is out and many people have rushed out to get themselves one.  Mostly really just to play with Siri, Apple’s new voice-guided assistant that can help you do everything from setting an alarm to the answer of a math problem to composing an email with a simple button press and your words.  [...]