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Middle Class Income: Pandagon v. Bartlett

…is kind of negated by the very real decrease in incomes. Table A-1 of Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003 from the Census Bureau shows…

Bush Prosperity

…time of Bush Prosperity! In the past 3 1/2 years Bush Prosperity has brought us: Median household incomes that have fallen by 3.5% (according to the Census Bureau) 4.3 million…

…a family at roughly the 60th percentile of income, which means that they would have had an annual income of about $50,000. (Source: Census Bureau.) The effect of Bush’s two…

…ten years is bad enough; if the current Republican inter-Census redistricting succeeds and Democrats respond, then it becomes a battle fought every two years-virtually ceaseless redistricting battles. And Republicans should…

Retail Sales

The Census Bureau had a press release this morning announcing that nominal retail sales fell -0.6% in February, the third consecutive fall. Wall Street economists,analysts, strategists and managers have been…