TR__p show he has no regard for his supporters . . . Since 2015 and across 170 disasters, the median average assistance amount per approved application from FEMA’s IHP is $4,995. On average, approximately 39 percent of applicants are determined to be eligible for Individuals and Households Program (IHP). FEMA programs can be a lifeline. […]
ICE’s new funding level is larger than the combined budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, Bureau of Prisons, and U.S. Marshals Service. Who are these people? “ICE was generally known as a place made up of people who couldn’t get jobs at the more established and reputable federal policing agencies — so, FBI, U.S. Marshals, […]
Two important danger signals in the June employment report – by New Deal democrat This is Ben Casellman, Chief Economic Correspondent for The NY Times’s take on last Friday’s employment report: I beg to differ. As I wrote Friday, underneath the headlines, this was a barely positive report – with some significant negatives. Let me […]
Some words and 4 simple, easy to understand charts on Medicaid on who uses Medicaid in rural areas and under the age of 65 years. Four minutes of read time to get the idea. If Republicans and Tr__p are going to whack rural citizens, you might as well know a little about them. Five-minute read. […]
– by New Deal democrat Last month the new orders components of the economically weighted ISM manufacturing and services indexes warranted the hoisting of a yellow flag “Recession Watch.” This month that continued. To recap, because manufacturing is much less important to the economy than in the decades before the Millennium, the economically weighted average of the […]
Dipping deep here to an old tune sung by the Temptations and then Edwin Starr. Tax Breaks to the wealthy do not pay for themselves and neither do they trickle down to lower income people. The 2017 Tax Break The reality is the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) did not pay for itself […]
I see where Elon has announced that he’s starting a third party. Setting aside the problem that he backed Trump in the last election and was in the tank with the Trump administration blowing up the federal government with DOGE, what are we to make of this? Ross Perot was the most successful third party […]
Another well written recreation of the Scopes Trial of 1925. It has been called the Scopes Money Trial. This a bit different than the movie you may watch on the topic. As the story goes John T. Scopes was approached by the American Civil Liberties Union to teach evolution. John Thomas Scopes was a young […]
– by New Deal democrat My Weekly Indicators post is up at Seeking Alpha. There were almost no changes to any of the high frequency indicators in any timeframe last week. Despite that, below the surface, there has been a very gradual weakening of a number of important indicators in both the monthly and weekly data. […]
My Two Cents: If it is of any consequence, this Baby Boomer is not happy to have Trump as the President again. He was terrible the first time. And he is really working hard to be more terrible this time. The threats keep on coming. People are kidnapped after court hearings, no warrants, masked so […]