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Whip Inflation Now
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) keeps track of the average retail price for a number of common items as a U.S. city average. Let’s take a look at a few. We used the price for the month President Obmam was inaugurated, January 2009, and the last month of data available, December 2011. The items are sorted in descending order by the percentage increase of the price during the Obama administration. Obama Obama Item Unit Jan 2009 Dec 2011 I/D Perc Gasoline, unl reg gal $1.787 $3.278 $1.491 83.44% Fuel … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Analysis, Original writing, Reporting
Fukushima Radiation Killed Thousands of Americans
In e-mail, Dr. Mangano has asked some important questions about the methods used to generate the data for this story. We are in the process of reviewing existing data, and obtaining additional data. We will update this piece within the next week. Until then, this article in Scientific American offers a similar critique to ours. In a study released just before Christmas, researchers estimate that 14,000 Americans died due to the effects of radioactive materials released … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Disasters, Earthquake Japan, Medicine, Original writing
Unemployment for July 2011
The slideshow illustrates the unemployment data for each July for the last decade, 2002 to 2011. … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Analysis, Original writing, Reporting, Unemployment
Black Unemployment in America Today
The Bureau of Labor Statistics has kept data on unemployment among American blacks since 1972. The record high rate of unemployment was in June 1983, 20.7%. The record low was in April 2000 at 7%. For June 2011 the black unemployment rate is 16.2%. The last thirty years have seen four peaks for black unemployment and three troughs. High % High Date Low % Low Date 20.7% June 1983 10.5% June 1990 14.7% May 1992 7.0% April 2000 11.5% June 2003 7.7% August 2007 The highest rate of black unemployment in the Obama … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Analysis, Original writing, Reporting, Unemployment
American Unemployment for January 2011
The January 2011 unemployment numbers have been released by the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. Statistic Record Month Record January 2011 January 2009 Change Civilian labor force October 2008 154,953,000 153,186,000 154,185,000 -999,000 Participation rate April 2000 67.30% 64.20% 65.70% -1.50% Unemployment rate April 2000 3.80% 9.00% 7.80% 1.20% White Unemployment June 2000 3.40% 8.00% 7.10% 0.90% Black Unemployment April 2000 7.00% 15.70% 12.70% 3.00% Hispanic Unemployment December 2006 5.00% 11.90% 9.90% 2.00% Average wks unemployed June 1969 7.7 36.9 19.9 17.0 Discouraged workers August 2000 203,000 993,000 734,000 -259,000 We have placed the records for each statistic into this table. The records clearly demonstrate the Clinton era boom when unemployment was extremely low. As prior stories have reported, the Bush era maintained near record lows until the … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Economy, Analysis, Original writing, Reporting, Unemployment
Looking at the left though an accountant’s eyes
The blogger known as Patterico is involved in a back and forth with some folks on the left. He’s been accused of all sorts of nastiness, especially being truthful, which hurts the left most of all. Two organizations are involved in this spat. One is the Justice Through Music Program (JTM), and the other is Velvet Revolution (VR). Let’s examine some of the facts available online for these groups. Justice Through Music Program JTM is registered as a 501 ( c)3 charity with the IRS. It is a Maryland tax exempt non-stock corporation, formed in 2004. The articles of incorporation may be found at this link. All online tax returns for JTM can be found at this link. The two directors, upon incorporation were Jeff Cohen and Brett Kimberlin. The address on the last … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Blogging, Original writing, Other Bloggers, Reporting
Poverty in America 2009 – Wage Parity
Wage parity between men and women in the United States is a matter of law. You cannot discriminate in wages and salaries solely on the basis of sex. Yet, in the many years since that became the law of the land, women’s wages have never reached 100% parity. There are many reason why that is. We are doing better, and the U.S. Census Bureau’s annual publication titled Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2009 reveals that progress. The chart above shows the parity ratio from 2000 to 2009. In those ten years, the ratio set four records. Indeed, it is possible to state that by this measure the Bush years were good for women’s wage parity. The report may suggest one reason why parity remains just out of reach. The … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
Poverty in America 2009 – Black Poverty
The Census Bureau has released its annual report titled Income, Poverty and Health Insurance in the United States: 2009. Poverty among blacks in America reached record lows during the Clinton Administration and remained at near record lows for most of the Bush Administration. There is a core of poverty among blacks, however, that seems impossible to reach and most of those living within that poverty core are in families headed by single mothers. The Census Bureau estimates that there were 38.6 million blacks in the United States in 2009. 31.3 million lived in families and of that number, 13.7 million lived in families headed by a single mother. Almost 35.5% of all blacks lived in families headed by a woman with no husband present. 25.8% of all blacks lived in poverty. For those … Read entire article »
Filed under: Analysis, Original writing, Poverty, Reporting
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