Did You Know?

0 Comments | Insight on the News, Nov 27, 2000

* Welfare rolls are down to 7.6 million participants from a peak of 14 million prior to welfare reforms (study by the Center for Civic innovation at the Manhattan Institute).

* it requires 40 additional hours of study for a college student to raise a mark by one letter grade (study by Ohio State University's Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics).

* As many as half of all items sold as American Indian arts and crafts are imitations or fakes (estimate cited by Sen. Pete Domenici, R-NM., regarding a new law broadening trade protections for American Indian artists and their arts and crafts organizations).

* The increasing migration to rural areas that are adjacent to large urban centers is not a sign of a rural economic renaissance, it is the result of the clean air, low crime, open spaces and scenic vistas available to those willing to commute (analysis of migration and commuter trends by Mitch Renkow, associate professor of agriculture and resource economics at North Carolina State University).