Showing posts with label US Census Bureau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US Census Bureau. Show all posts
Monday, October 20, 2025

ROFLMAO: The time-challenged imbeciles at The Washington Times forget to mention it was Trump's incompetent, biased, rigged 2020 census

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  Botched Census 'Accidentally' Handed Dems 6 House Votes Washington Times   ... The 2020 population count...
Friday, March 21, 2025

This greaseball billionaire Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick thinks missing a Social Security check, something that never happens, would be no big deal

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Howard is otherwise busy firing people and disbanding volunteer industry groups who help the government create important statistics and guid...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Meanwhile for the annals of dead American conservatism, meathead Mark Levin laughably eulogizes Ted Olson as the "late, great"

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    Mostly because of Olson's role in Bush v Gore in 2000. Levin never mentions that Olson himself, a thorough-going amoral libertarian...
Wednesday, May 8, 2024

In other unbelievable news, the population clock of the US Census Bureau shows an increase of just 4.6 million since Joe Biden was inaugurated

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 https://www.census.gov/popclock/ Out of sight, out of mind I guess.    
Wednesday, June 2, 2021

Fredo Fauci on US mortality rate for COVID-19 vs. influenza

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Anthony Fauci should have known better than to make a mistake like this in March 2020, saying the coronavirus mortality rate was 2%, but I t...
Friday, February 7, 2020

Bernie was right in 2015 and it's even worse now: Real wages of men are lower than they were 45 years ago, a fiasco

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Wolf Richter : The median earnings of men working full time year-round in 2018 ticked up to $55,291. Adjusted for inflation...
Thursday, March 1, 2018

Story in The Atlantic cherry picks data about senior poverty

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The Census Bureau's new (since 2011 but fiddled with again in 2013) Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) shows senior poverty in sligh...
Friday, January 15, 2016

Rush Limbaugh is so stupid he thinks today's bad sales numbers were deliberately delayed until after the State of the Union address

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The data release occurs on a regular schedule, which can be accessed here . There's no conspiracy to make Obama look better, as Limbau...
Friday, September 6, 2013

Sorry, But We Aren't Talking About A Lot Of People Not Counted In The Unemployment Numbers

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I'd estimate the number not counted in the unemployment numbers to be between 1.5 million and 3.2 million, max. 9.784 million have left ...
Friday, February 8, 2013

Poverty Thresholds 2012

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As shown here .
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Poverty Thresholds 2011

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As shown here .
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Congressmen Get Richer, You Get Poorer

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Just in time to echo my recent ranting about our rich, corrupt and unrepresentative Congress and why we therefore need a bigger one, P...
Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Bruce Bartlett is so full of it: "More than 90 percent put themselves squarely in the middle"

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No they don't. Bruce Bartlett has no scruples left ( link ): Social class also involves self-identification. According to the General So...

The Increase in the Wealth Gap is Due to the Housing Collapse

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The latest figures from the Federal Reserve ( link : compare lines 4 and 42) show that enormous wealth destruction in housing is the overwhe...
Monday, November 28, 2011

Consumers Increase Spending in 2011 From Savings and Social Security Tax Holiday

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Net real retail spending looks set to come in up 2.9 percent in 2011 over 2010. Per the data here from the Census. Average monthly retail a...
Sunday, November 13, 2011

Adam Davidson of NPR Wants to Increase Taxes on It, But What Really is The Middle Class?

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In The New York Times, here , where he expansively defines the middle class as everyone making between $30K and $200K: To solve our debt pro...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Herman Cain's 999 Tax Idea is a Pipe Dream

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Total retail and food services sales, according to the US Census Bureau here , in 2008 came to $4.4 trillion. (For 2010, the annualized esti...

Tariffs on Imports at 100 Percent Wouldn't Be Enough to Cover Federal Spending

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Here are the import numbers (rounded) for the last three years for all goods and services, according to the latest revision from the US Cens...
Saturday, July 2, 2011

Poverty Lines 2010 US Census

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( source )
Sunday, May 1, 2011

Doh! We Tax the Rich Because That's Where The Money Is, Knucklehead.

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Per Census.gov here , these are the income limits by each quintile of 23,507.6 households in 2009: Lowest: up to $20,453 Second: up to $38,5...