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

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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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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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