Daily Links for July 17th through July 19th
All excerpts are quoted from the respective link(s).
- 7 Reasons Why Housing Isn’t Bottoming Yet –
- Map: Where Americans Are Living Well – Forbes.com – This map tracks population, education, business and lifestyle factors across the country, using colors to indicate the magnitude and concentration of each factor. As a "heat map," the brighter red the color, the better the region's score. To select categories, use the pull down menu above Montana and North Dakota. The data key refreshes for each category and appears south of Mexico. Data provided by ZoomProspector.com, a San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in corporate relocation. It evaluated areas of the country with fewer than 100,000 people. Due to differing regional definitions, we used the label "town" for any city, township, borough or Census-designated place with such populations.
- Consumers Don’t Hate Ads After All, Survey Says – They may not quite be grateful for advertising. But consumers realize it pays the bills for much of the content they enjoy — and, for that matter, that it helps the economy to function. Those are among the significant findings of a newly released global survey by Nielsen, AdweekMedia's parent company.
- Cash For Clunkers Demystified – INFOGRAPHIC – An infographic attempt to explain the 'Cash for Clunkers' program.
- Transparency: HMO Donations to the U.S. Senate | GOOD – Health care reform is currently a major issue before the U.S. Congress. Health insurance providers—who stand to become more regulated or have to compete with a government-run health care service if certain reforms are enacted—currently donate massive amounts of money to the members of Congress who will decide the issue. Our latest Transparency is a look at how much money each U.S. senator is taking from HMOs, and how much money the HMOs are taking from their consumers.
