I Stand Where I Live

  I SWIL has become amazed by this story and have found some others, I will post about at a later date.  Now, I wanted to state that I had no idea this was happening in Portland Or. The subject of this article, Oregon is one of only a dozen states where the majority of its residents aren't from there. Each year thousands of 20-somethings move to Portland. The city's entire population is growing, but Portland is still about 80 percent white, making it one of the most homogeneous metropolitan cities in the country. Many of the migrants don't have jobs, kids or a mortgage. So why do they keep coming?

  Oregon economist Christian Kaylor says he can think of only one explanation for the migration into Portland: the quality of life.

 Kaylor says wages there are sometimes 20 percent lower than in Seattle or San Francisco. But people keep coming. In fact, Portland's appeal is part of why the city's unemployment rate tends to be about a point higher than the national average.
  Please, follow the links for more information to the stories in this blog post as found in the NPR.


  

The Story About Learning

     The information in this post will help you to learn about the game politicians play on Capitol Hill.with this yet to be seen at the link.   Mary from Louisiana asked Olympia from Maine because they are BFFs, but had a backup in Bob from Tennessee in case she was rebuffed. Kirsten from New York went the Sadie Hawkins route and asked John from South Dakota, and thus the deal between two members of the Senate with seriously good hair was sealed. More on the follow the link.

  Thank you for reading!




  

Out of Control Politician

   


   The story goes as follows,  a disgraced former billionaire  who is at the center of a criminal investigation probing whether she made fraudulent representations about her financial worth to a number of banks. 
     The banking industry has over whelmed us all to the point that things like the story describes the money market in the link.