…a global trend, peaking and subsequently declining between 1990 and 2010. After the Cold War, the world eagerly entered what could be called a golden era of “hyper-globalization”, during which…

…2010 when the immigrant portions was an approximate 15.6% of the workforce. Immigrants can be employed across different industries. However, there is concentrations of immigrants in education, health, and professional…

Curing U.S. Health Care, Part II Paul Krugman On March 23, 2010 President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — usually referred to either as the…

Projected growth in spending on the federal government’s big health and retirement programs–Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security–dominates the long-run budget outlook. If current policies continue, that spending is likely to…

…of millions of people, permanently (click for larger): (U.S. Census Survey of Consumer Finance) Is it hard to imagine the effects of this picture on demand for real-world goods and…

…to consider alternative measures of poverty and the experience of other industrialized democracies. As Arthur Delaney and Ryan Grim report, the Census Bureau has developed a “Supplemental Poverty Measure” (SPM)…

…do much demographic weighting so the sampling error is equal to the stated sampling error (most pollsters weight to make their sample of adults match census data on some dimensions…

…studies.) An economy is one such organizational grouping of activity. A democracy is another. A “market” is only a labeling of activity. It is one of many relational activities within…

…to what the word “middle” actually means. Thinking about all this prompted a look at the various income quintiles.  The data, through 2009, is available at the Census Bureau web…

…Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Israel, Jordan, South Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, and Singapore. The U.S. Census Bureau (then click on individual countries) has the…