section 7.2 Assesment!

1. Three main advantages of renting a residence are mobility or how close you are to work or schools for your family, there is low initial costs to renting wherease you pay thousands of dollars for down payments on a house you are going to buy.

2. Disadvantages to renting are that you have restrictions on your lifestyle like renting may be more expensive then renting at times you have to go by the rules of the tenants, there can be legal issues like having to sign a lease and there is not as much stability to renting.
3. the costs of renting a residence is determined by the location of the renting the living space the utilities what the security deposit is and the insurance.

4. the best Apartments for two freinds to share would be apartments with 1 or more bedrooms so that you can split the cost of rent.
5. the rent would be cheaper he would pay 600 dollars instead of 675 a month by splitting the costs of utilities he would spend 7200 a year for his total share of the rent and utilities.

6. She could not take the cat and stay at her apartment with her rent She could keep the cat with her parents until she found an apartment that allowed pets but probably has a higher rent. She could talk to her landlord and work something out.

WSI article!

1.3 trillion dollars for the budget and 400 billion more in spending.

2. That the conservation of heritage foundation will have spent 800 billion on the wars in iraq.

3. Brian Reidl

4. yes i think that they should because there is people who cant afford to buy health care for themselves or there families so i think that mainly for the low income families there should be some more support from the government for healthcare.

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Consumer Price Index Blog

Consumer Price Index: Consumer Price Index is a monthly calculation of prices on products either going up or going down!


Milk Western Family: $4.39 1 gallon.



Bread Western Family: $1.29 1lb 8 0z.





Hamburger Ground Bucks: $2.96 $1.24 cents a pound



Cheese Western Family: $5.59 1lb





Butter Western Family: $1.29 1lb





Eggs Western Family: $2.29 24 0z.




Noodles Western Family $1.69 1lb







Cereal Qauker: $4.99 1lb 5oz





Apples Red Delicious: 8.7cents






Ham Bucks: $9.92 99 cents per lb

Milk will go up probably by may along with the apples and bread because of the inclining gas prices!

I found that the wheat prices are going up because of the growing need for the product in overseas contries. Plus the increase in gas has rose so fast that they have to up the price of bread for gas money!