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    Researcher Taryn Yaeger looked at 7,000 pieces that appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal between 15 September and 7 December 2011, and found that while women wrote more frequently than men about so-called “pink” topics (like family concerns and home life), they were almost mute on matters such as Occupy Wall Street and other protests or rallies (14% of commentaries), international politics (13%), and the economy (11%). Why? Read Maura Kelly’s Why women have no opinions to find out

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    Photograph: Hours needed to pay rent in London, UK, from our data blog. It found nowhere in the country where a 40-hour-work week would be enough. —— Last Friday we re-blogged a very good graph showing that, well, it is nearly impossible to rent a place anywhere in the US at minimum wage without working more than 70 words a week: The wonderful folks at the Guardian’s data blog liked the idea, and ran numbers for London. Guess what? Same (depressing-ish) results. • Follow the Guardian’s awesome Data blog on Tumblr

    Photograph: Hours needed to pay rent in London, UK, from our data blog. It found nowhere in the country where a 40-hour-work week would be enough.

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    Last Friday we re-blogged a very good graph showing that, well, it is nearly impossible to rent a place anywhere in the US at minimum wage without working more than 70 words a week:

    The wonderful folks at the Guardian’s data blog liked the idea, and ran numbers for London. Guess what? Same (depressing-ish) results.

    • Follow the Guardian’s awesome Data blog on Tumblr

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