Hurricane ‘Florence’ made landfall on September 14th crashing into the eastern coast of the United States. The storm, predicted to hit the coast as a Category 4, became the talk of the town in Virginia, and North Carolina and South Carolina, states all predicted to be in the path of destruction. Milk, bread, and water…
In the last two weeks, we (the graduate assistants at OED) were working on Quarterly Reports for Workforce Development Areas (WDA) one, two and three. Each season, we try to focus on a certain topic related to workforce development. This time we have decided to investigate gender-based employment issues. So far by looking at national…
Throughout my coursework, internships, and my GA positions, I have seen a lot of wage data. Average weekly wages, median household income, inflation adjusted occupational wages- I thought I had seen it all prior to doing the background research for our upcoming quarterly workforce report. Filtering this data by gender yielded results I had never…