Economics
- US Population is 132,122,000c.
- Unemployed in 1940- 8,120,000c.
- National Debt is $43 Billion
- Average Salary $1299
- Average Teacher Salary $1441
- Minimum Wage $.43 per hour
- 55% of US homes have indoor plumbing
- Life expectancy for women is 68.2
- Life expectancy for men is 60.8
- Auto Deaths 34,500c.
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Famous quotes containing the word economics:
“Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
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“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”
—Anonymous.
An axiom from economics popular in the 1960s, the words have no known source, though have been dated to the 1840s, when they were used in saloons where snacks were offered to customers. Ascribed to an Italian immigrant outside Grand Central Station, New York, in Alistair Cooke’s America (epilogue, 1973)