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Follow up to Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009, this WSJ interactive graphic: Poverty Rate Living in Poverty | Income by Gender | Income Disparity | Income by Race | Income by Region
The Increase in Income Cyclicality of High-Income Households and its Relation to the Rise in Top Income Shares, by Jonathan A. Parker, Northwestern University and NBER Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Northwestern University, NBER and CEPR, September 7, 2010
The State of the Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era, By Marianne Bitler, UC Irvine and San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, Hilary W. Hoynes, UC Davis, September 8, 2010. Paper prepared for Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Conference Date September 16-17, 2010 “The passage of the 1996 welfare reform bill led to sweeping changes …
News release and tables: “The U.S. current-account deficit the combined balances on trade in goods and services, income, and net unilateral current transfers – increased to $123.3 billion (preliminary) in the second quarter of 2010, from $109.2 billion (revised) in the first quarter of 2010. The increase was the fourth consecutive quarterly increase since …
100 Recovery Act Projects That Are Changing America, September 2010 “Many of these projects also lay the foundation for sustainable economic growth and job creation: traditional infrastructure projects like highway, railroad, and waterway construction and 21st century infrastructure projects like the installation of broadband lines and towers. Whats more, whole new industries are springing up …
Veterans’ Benefits: Training for Experienced Disability Claims Processors, GAO-10-1029T, September 16, 2010 Export Promotion: The Export-Import Bank’s Financing of Dual-Use Exports, GAO-10-1052R, September 15, 2010 Whistleblower Protection: Sustained Management Attention Needed to Address Long-standing Program Weaknesses, GAO-10-722, August 17, 2010
“The Guardian today has launched a new website in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help focus the world’s attention on global development. The site will provide a new space for discussion and interaction on the biggest challenges affecting the lives of billions of people across the developing world, including poverty, hunger, …
Fiscal Policy Choices in Uncertain Times, September 16, 2010, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director “CBO expects that the economic recovery will proceed at a modest pace, leaving the unemployment rate above 8 percent until 2012. There are monetary and fiscal policy options that, if applied at a sufficient scale, would increase output and employment during the …
Consumer Price Index – August 2010: “On a seasonally adjusted basis, the CPI-U increased 0.3 percent in August, the same increase as in July. The index for all items less food and energy was unchanged in August after rising 0.1 percent in July.” Related postings on financial system
News release: “Real average hourly earnings for all employees was unchanged from July to August, seasonally adjusted. This result stems from a 0.3 percent increase in average hourly earnings, which was offset by a 0.3 percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U). Real average weekly earnings was about unchanged over …
News release: “The use of illicit drugs among Americans increased between 2008 and 2009 according to a national survey conducted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) shows the overall rate of current illicit drug use in the United States rose from 8.0 …
News release, includes data: “The U.S. Census Bureau announced today that real median household income in the United States in 2009 was $49,777, not statistically different from the 2008 median. The nation’s official poverty rate in 2009 was 14.3 percent, up from 13.2 percent in 2008 the second statistically significant annual increase in the …
