The lights are out

Power went out and we were hungry.  Found an old food warmer and viola! Ramen. #mushroomofcourse. Love. 

When people tell you education isn't important...

*  68% of State prison inmates did not
receive a high school diploma.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/ascii/ecp.txt

Raising the minimum wage - from the DOL

Myth: Increasing the minimum wage will cause people to lose their jobs.

Not true: In a letter to President Obama and congressional leaders urging a minimum wage increase, more than 600 economists, including 7 Nobel Prize winners wrote, "In recent years there have been important developments in the academic literature on the effect of increases in the minimum wage on employment, with the weight of evidence now showing that increases in the minimum wage have had little or no negative effect on the employment of minimum-wage workers, even during times of weakness in the labor market. Research suggests that a minimum-wage increase could have a small stimulative effect on the economy as low-wage workers spend their additional earnings, raising demand and job growth, and providing some help on the jobs front."

http://www.dol.gov/minwage/mythbuster.htm

Seasonal Creep

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/plants-earlier-bloom-times-hurting-some-creatures/2011/04/08/AF42He4C_story.html

Renewable Energy Production By State | Department of Energy

http://energy.gov/maps/renewable-energy-production-state

Study of Active Shooter Incidents in the United States between 2000 and 2013

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2014/september/fbi-releases-study-on-active-shooter-incidents/pdfs/a-study-of-active-shooter-incidents-in-the-u.s.-between-2000-and-2013