The Indianapolis Star article “Indiana more a ‘southern state’?

Read the Indianapolis Star article “Indiana more a ‘southern state’? Report cites wages, increasing poverty” (Sept. 1, 2018), pages 1A and 6A [available in the Canvas “Files” folder]; you may also want to look at the report it cites (Links to an external site.) as you answer the following questions: Background and Context Based on the article, what are the distinctive economic and social features of ‘southern states’? 2a. What does the Indiana Institute for Working Families say about state trends in poverty, wages, and employment? 2b. What do Kyle Hupfer and Professor Michael Hicks say about the same trends? 2c. Is it possible for both perspectives (in other words, your answers to 2a and 2b) to be true? Why or why not? What can you check for yourself? Use stats.indiana.edu (Links to an external site.) to find the following data for Indiana, another Midwestern state, and a southern state: 3a. per capita personal income in 2008 and in 2018; 3b. median household incomes in 2008 and 2018; 3c. percentage of the workforce represented by a union in 2008 and 2018; 3d. percentage of adults over the age of 25 without a high school diploma or equivalent. Now compare information about three Indiana counties. County-level information is available under the “Profiles” tab on stats.indiana.edu; it is labeled “Indiana IN depth.” Find (and record) the following for Marion County (home to Indianapolis), Hamilton County (its neighbor to the north), and one other county of your choice: 4a. per capita personal income in 2007 and 2017; 4b. median household income in 2007 and 2017; 4c. percentage of adults over the age of 25 without a high school diploma or equivalent; 4d. percentage of population in poverty in 2017. Short-Answer Essays (your answer to each of the following questions should be 1-4 sentences) Explain your choice of comparison states (questions 3a-3d) and county (4a-4d). How do your data compare with the interpretations reported in the article? Which of the two perspectives (questions 2a and 2b) do your data seem to support? Which do you think tell you more: the state-level or county-level data? https://www.inphilanthropy.org/resources/status-working-families-indiana-2018-report http://www.stats.indiana.edu