Here’s a great quiz.
You answered 56 out of 60 correctly — 93.33 %
BTW, here’s how our elite performed.

Found this via the Corner

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Washington Examiner

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This is the great untold story of the Bush Administration. Women have been at 77% parity with men for the last two years, a record parity. The entire Bush administration can boast of an average female parity of 76.5%, while Bill Clinton can only show an average of 72.7% during the first six years of [...]

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INCOME LEVELS
2006
2000
1991

Black - over $25K
60.6%
61.0%
51.7%

Black - over $50K
32.3%
32.2%
24.5%

Hispanic - over $25K
68.2%
67.4%
60.4%

Hispanic - over $50K
36.7%
35.6%
28.7%

 POVERTY LEVELS
2006
2000
1991

Black
24.2%
22.5%
32.7%

Hispanic
20.6%
21.5%
28.7%

Black poverty remains higher than other races. However, at its current rate, it is near a historical low. Until the mid 1990’s, the rate was over 30%. Only in the three Clinton boom years, 1999-2001, do we see the black poverty [...]

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In 2006, the poverty rate was 12.3 %. Only three years since 1980 had a lower rate, 1999-2001.

TERM
AVG % ALL
AVG % FAMILIES

Reagan I
14.7
13.3

Reagan II
13.5
12.0

Bush 41
13.8
12.4

Clinton I
14.3
12.8

Clinton II
12.3
10.7

Bush 43 I
12.3
10.5

Bush 43 II
12.5
10.7

Average Poverty Rate - First Six Years of an Administration:
Reagan: 14.4%
Clinton: 13.9%
Bush 43: 12.3%
In 1981, 29.8% of Americans earned under $25,000 per year. In 2006, [...]

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The Census Bureau has issued its annual report titled Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006 report [PDF]. As I have done for the last several years, I’ll pick at the report and provide you with dome information and graphs.
Here are the highlights from the press release:
About 9.8 percent (7.7 million) [...]

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The New York Times has looked at the wealthiest Americans, adjusted for inflation. Our current best, Bill Gates, does no better than fifth.
They have a neat, interactive graph, that seems to demonstrate that the period between 1850 and 1900 was when the wealthiest Americans ran rampant across the plains, or some such. Sam Walton comes [...]

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Biz Law Blog
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in McNamee v. IRS, No. 05-6151 just affirmed a federal trial court’s determination that the owner of an LLC (limited liability company) can be held personally liable for unpaid payroll taxes. This is a significant decision, which may well be appealed to the Supreme Court.
Go [...]

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I missed this year’s Equal Pay Day, I guess. I’m unemployed so every day has an equal pay for me, $0.
The point of this day is to point out the difference between the incomes for working men and working women.
Via Michelle Malkin I learn that Hillary had a piece on a lefty blog on this [...]

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The stock market took a bit of a beating today.
Bloomberg
U.S. stocks plunged, wiping out about $600 billion in market value and erasing all of 2007’s gains, after a selloff in China spread and sparked the biggest rout in four years. Treasuries had the biggest jump since December 2004.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much [...]

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Ace got me thinking about Real GDP. He has a great piece about where the old media sets the bar, for Europe and for the United States.
I started digging and created two graphs.

This graph tries to illustrate the similarities and differences between this President’s economy and his predecessor. The major point that I take away [...]

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What is the State of our Union this day?

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