FS in Denver + Maps

For those of you in the Denver area who might be considering a career in the Foreign Service, there's an upcoming event you might find very interesting: check out this flyer.  The networking event will be on Thursday, September 19, 2013 from 6:00PM – 8:00PM at the Crowne Plaza downtown.  If you can't make it, you can always check out options on the DoS careers website.

I just came across this Washington Post article titled '40 maps that explain the world'.  Pretty interesting for big picture information, particularly for insight for me about the countries in which I'm supporting projects.  The two economic inequality maps had an oddity: the first represents the US and China as the same, while the second shows China as "less".  Apparently, no more than 0.04 GINI coefficient units out of 0.35 total.  Naturally.  The more I stared at this, the more skeptical I became, BUT it's still interesting in general.

Economic inequality around the world


Higher gini coefficient scores indicate higher economic inequality. (Wikimedia Commons)

(This post written while listening to Sharon Jones Dancing Together.)