Longer Lines at Starbucks a Sign of Better Days?

How deeply a container ship cuts through the water just off of a port. A priest's homilies invoking the unemployed. The line at Starbucks.

Even a casual reader of The Upswing knows that we are fairly obsessed with uncommon economic indicators. So imagine how psyched we were to come across this piece about just that, which aired on the Seattle and Tacoma NPR affiliate KPLU yesterday.

The story begins with a reporter asking 1,200 residents of Oregon, Washington and Idaho to complete the same...