{"id":33275,"date":"2010-11-20T09:44:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T17:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2010-11-22T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T20:12:09","slug":"open-thread-%e2%80%93-november-20th-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2010\/11\/20\/open-thread-%e2%80%93-november-20th-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread \u2013 November 20th, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend pointed me to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.measureofamerica.org\/maps\/\">Mapping the Measure of America<\/a>. It allows for the creation of maps really quickly without any nerd-grease needed. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=' float: left; padding: 4px; margin: 0 7px 2px 0;'  src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/11\/lifeexp-300x187.png\" alt=\"lifeexp\" title=\"lifeexp\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7868\" \/>To the left is a a map of <b>life expectancy at birth by Congressional District<\/b>. West Virginia&#8217;s 13th Congressional District has the lowest life expectancy in the USA at birth at 73.93 years. Median income is $23,200. 13.8% have university degrees or higher. In contrast, New York&#8217;s 16th Congressional District has a life expectancy of 79.03 years, a median income of $17,800 dollars, and is 66.6% Latino (presumably mostly Puerto Rican since it is in the Bronx). Georgia&#8217;s 6th Congressional District, north of Atlanta, has a life expectancy of 79.06 years. Median income is $40,800. It is 72% white, 10% black, 10% Latino, and 7% Asian. Texas&#8217;s 15th Congressional District has a median income of $19,700, and a life expectancy of 80.72 years. It is 81% Latino. 15% have university degrees or higher.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a map which shows the proportion lacking private health insurance by district:<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-7867\"><\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2010\/11\/insur1.png\" alt=\"insur\" title=\"insur\" width=\"600\" height=\"386\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7873\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend pointed me to Mapping the Measure of America. It allows for the creation of maps really quickly without any nerd-grease needed.<br \/>\nTo the left is a a map of life expectancy at birth by Congressional District. West Virginia&#8217;s 13th Congressional District has the lowest life expectancy in the USA at birth at 73.93 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-open-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33275"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33405,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33275\/revisions\/33405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}