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Poverty in America 2008 - Elderly

August 26th, 2008 · No Comments · 82 views

The poverty rate for people over 65 was at a record low in 2006 and is at its second lowest for 2007.

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Tags: American Economy · Analysis · Original writing · Poverty

Poverty in America 2008 - Women

August 26th, 2008 · No Comments · 111 views

American women reached record wage parity with men in 2007. Women earned 77.8 cents for every dollar earned by men.

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Poverty in America 2008 - Overview

August 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · 220 views

The U.S. Census Bureau has released its annual report Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007 [PDF].

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Tags: American Economy · Analysis · Original writing · Poverty

Poverty in America 2008

August 19th, 2008 · No Comments · 104 views

The Census Bureau is scheduled to release its annual report titled “Income, Poverty, Health Insurance Coverage and American Community Survey: 2007″ on August 26, 2009. This will be the fourth year that America’s North Shore Journal has covered the report.

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Tags: American Economy · Analysis · Original writing · Poverty

Russia’s Attack on Georgia

August 9th, 2008 · 2 Comments · 247 views

Here’s my summation and speculation.

The intermittent hostilities between the South Ossetians and Georgia heated up over the last several weeks. Make no mistake about it. This was at the direction of Russia. Nothing happens in South Ossetia without their approval.

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Tags: Analysis · Original writing · Our Allies

Harry Reid: Hispanic Unemployment Disproportionately High

August 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 205 views

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has kept records on Hispanic unemployment since 1973. That data is publicly available, and they will even graph it for you.

The lowest Hispanic unemployment rate on record: October 2006 at 4.7 percent. The second lowest: 4.9 percent in both May and December 2006. The President when these record lows were set? George W. Bush.

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Tags: American Economy · Analysis · Original writing · Unemployment

Word of Mouth Marketing

June 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · 19 views

Word of Mouth Marketing is a number of things. It’s the customer reviews on Amazon. It’s me writing about my new web browser, Flock. Sometimes it’s the spam in your e-mail Inbox.

I was tweeting back and forth last evening with someone about the value of such a campaign, the value that people are adding, and the value of their labor in doing so.

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Tags: Analysis · Original writing · Tech

American Losses in Iraq

June 5th, 2008 · No Comments · 20 views

Check out my graphs at Losses in Iraq. Updated through May 2008.

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Tags: Analysis · Iraq · Original writing · War on Terror

Terrorist Death Watch Through January 2008

February 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · 24 views

Here are a series of graphs, up to date through the end of January, illustrating the deaths inflicted on Anti Iraqi Forces, AIF, terrorists and al Qaeda. Some of the grpahs compare the losses suffered by our forces in the same time period. In addition, our losses are restricted to those considered hostile, and the [...]

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Tags: Analysis · Iraq · Original writing · Reporting · Terrorist Death Watch · War on Terror

Influenza 2008 - Week 6

February 19th, 2008 · Comments Off · 23 views

Though the week ending February 9, 2008, we have had five consecutive weeks with the national influenza rate above epidemic levels.

CDC Influenza

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Tags: Analysis · Influenza · Medicine · Original writing