MOScout Sunday6: E-Cars - Fertilizer Prices - Broadband Gap - Hispanic Enrollment and more...

1. Electric cars, by state.  No surprise California leads the nation.

Source: USA Facts.

2. Fertilizer prices off record highs but still elevated.

Source: St. Louis Federal Reserve.

3. Hispanic enrollment is growing at colleges.

Source: Pew Research.

4. Rural and suburban home prices outpaced urban home prices during pandemic.

Source: Redfin.

5. Broadband gap across rural Missouri.  I look at this map, and I think about the opportunity cost of the special session tax cut.   Should we have tried instead to cut the red in the map in half?

Source: Department of Economic Development.

6. But if you don’t trust government to do anything, tax cuts are always the most logical solution.  And Republicans generally think government is doing a poor job of everything.

Source: Gallup.

7. If you love charts and graphs, I recommend Scott Galloway’s Adrift.  Here’s pic I took of one of the charts while leafing through the book over the weekend.