{"id":402936,"date":"2010-03-08T07:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogs.courant.com,2010:\/capitol_watch\/\/9.73176"},"modified":"2010-03-08T19:16:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T00:16:25","slug":"sunday-alcohol-sales-trinity-college-professor-says-those-who-drink-earn-more-money-than-nondrinkers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/402936","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Alcohol Sales: Trinity College Professor Says Those Who Drink Earn More Money Than Nondrinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the longrunning battle over whether the Sunday sales of alcohol should be legalized&nbsp;in Connecticut, a visiting Trinity College professor will testify today at the state Capitol complex that the sales are good for the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Edward Peter Stringham is the co-author of a book titled, &#8220;No Booze? You May Lose: Why Drinkers Earn More Money Than Nondrinkers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stringham was previously an economics&nbsp;professor at San Jose State University, and he was interviewed on CNBC television about his findings that men who drink earn 10 percent more than nondrinkers and women who drink earn 14 percent more than their nondrinking counterparts. On top of that, men who have frequented bars within the past month earn 17 percent more than those who did not, according to Stringham.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rDBwom174TA\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rDBwom174TA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/politics\/hc-sunday-sales-0308.artmar08,0,176115.story\">http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/politics\/hc-sunday-sales-0308.artmar08,0,176115.story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the longrunning battle over whether the Sunday sales of alcohol should be legalized&nbsp;in Connecticut, a visiting Trinity College professor will testify today at the state Capitol complex that the sales are good for the economy. Edward Peter Stringham is the co-author of a book titled, &#8220;No Booze? You May Lose: Why Drinkers Earn More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}