Since Sec. Snow and Sec. Chao preferred the Household Survey numbers last month, let’s oblige them this month too. This measure has employment rising by only 21,000. President Bush is…

…have represented about a 1% per year increase in employment, which is about how fast labor supply increases each year. The Payroll Survey numbers from BLS show that employment may…

…horror (cordially, if you can believe that). I point to the numbers — less guns, less murders — and he points to countries like Mexico, which have gun control laws…

Okay, so Paul Krugman blogged yesterday that the Clinton campaign’s numbers guru, Joel Benenson, claims that Clinton lopsidedly won the Ohio primary because: Ohioans took a hard look at Senator…

…review at length. But since the authors were effectively accused of not really having numbers at all here is an advanced peek at some of the future workproduct. This one…

…. . . Social Security and Medicare: Fun with Numbers Time, Center for Economic and Policy Research, Dean Baker As a Thanksgiving present to readers, Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell…

Why the public still views inflation as a major problem, despite the official numbers  – by New Deal democrat This is the topic I indicated last week I wanted to…

…number of jobs needed to hold the unemployment rate steady are all over the place (and can be very confusing – and I’m guilty of using different numbers). Here is…

by Linda Beale Truth in Budget Numbers crossposted with Ataxingmatter Seems like everybody these days is into misrepresenting, distorting, or at least stretching the facts to suit the spin they…

by cactus John McWhorter on James Patterson and Some Odd Numbers on Black Childhood Poverty I’m kinda in the home stretch for the fact checking on my book – we’ve…