{"id":2443,"date":"2020-11-12T17:54:24","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2020-11-12T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:54:24","slug":"starrs-point-index-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/2020\/11\/12\/starrs-point-index-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Starr&#8217;s Point Index #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country with largest increase in COVID-19 cases in October: Czechia (formerly Czech Republic) 379%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country with second largest increase: Poland 296%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Canada\u2019s October increase: 49%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Country with highest rate of COVID positive tests to Oct. 31: Czechia 14.6%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">U.S test positivity rate to Oct. 31: 6.5%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Canada test positivity rate to Oct. 31: 2.4%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nova Scotia rate to date: 0.94%\u00a0<a href=\"#_edn1\" name=\"_ednref1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">COVID-USA<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Number of states with COVID-19 case increases greater than 50% in October: 15<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Number of those 15 states won by Donald Trump in 2020 Presidential election: 11<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Number of those 11 states that have not supported a Democrat for President since at least 1968: 7<a href=\"#_edn2\" name=\"_ednref2\">[2]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Total number of states that have not supported a Democrat for President since at least 1968: 9<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Share of Electoral College votes cast by those states in 2020: 7.43%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Share of U.S. population in those states in 2020: 5.08%<a href=\"#_edn3\" name=\"_ednref3\">[3]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nova Scotia tuition fees<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Increase in university tuition fees in Nova Scotia 2012-2020: 46.5%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Average increase in university tuition fees for all provinces 2012-20: 18.3%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Provincial ranking of Nova Scotia tuition fees 2012: Third highest<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Provincial ranking of Nova Scotia tuition fees 2020: Highest <a href=\"#_edn4\" name=\"_ednref4\">[4]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Jobs and wages<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Increase in jobs in Nova Scotia between 2015 and 2019: 20,615<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Share of those jobs in accommodation and food services: 47.4%<a href=\"#_edn5\" name=\"_ednref5\">[5]<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Nova Scotia average weekly earnings 2019: $905.04<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Average weekly earnings accommodation and food services: $386.08<a href=\"#_edn6\" name=\"_ednref6\">[6]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Greenhouse gas emissions<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Change in total emissions of greenhouse gases in Canada from 2016 to 2018: +3.25%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Change in total Ghg emissions in Nova Scotia 2016-18: +8.97%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Change in Ghg emissions from electricity in Canada 2016 to 2018: &#8211; 13.58%<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Change in emissions from electricity in Nova Scotia 2016-18: +9.38<a href=\"#_edn7\" name=\"_ednref7\">[7]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">-30-<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref1\" name=\"_edn1\">[1]<\/a> Worldometer and NS Health<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref2\" name=\"_edn2\">[2]<\/a> Worldometer and Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref3\" name=\"_edn3\">[3]<\/a> Wikipedia and World Population Review<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref4\" name=\"_edn4\">[4]<\/a> Statistics Canada Table 37-10-0003-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref5\" name=\"_edn5\">[5]<\/a> Statistics Canada Table 36-10-0480-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref6\" name=\"_edn6\">[6]<\/a> Statistics Canada Table 14-10-0204-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#_ednref7\" name=\"_edn7\">[7]<\/a> Environment and Climate Change Canada National Inventory Report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country with largest increase in COVID-19 cases in October: Czechia (formerly Czech Republic) 379% Country with second largest increase: Poland 296% Canada\u2019s October increase: 49% Country with highest rate of COVID positive tests to Oct. 31: Czechia 14.6% U.S test positivity rate to Oct. 31: 6.5% Canada test positivity rate to Oct. 31: 2.4% Nova [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[169,81,128],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-index","tag-covid-19","tag-emissions","tag-employment","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2451,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/2451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.formac.ca\/starrspoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}