…from the five year moving average centered on 1980 and 2007. The last year that this data is available is 2009 Source: Bureau of the Census/Haver Analytics If we taxed…

…full employment in a reasonable amount of time. Second, the trade deficit increased to $46.3 billion in January, an increase of around $6 billion: The U.S. Census Bureau and the…

…from 1959 to the present. Inflation adjustments were computed using monthly and yearly CPI-U figures from the BLS. Population figures were obtained (and organized painstakingly) from various Census sources: pre-1980s,…

…jobs and a 10,000 fall in government employment. Now that the census employment distortions have moved out of the data it is now showing the fundamental trends as both of…

by Tom aka Rusty Rustbelt The Pain of Economic Change Michigan is the only state in the union showing a net negative population trend in the recent census report, and…

The employment report was weak across the board as the unemployment rate remained at 9.6% as government employment fell -159,000 reflecting both falling temporary Census jobs and loses of some…

…of the population in severe poverty is now the highest in the Census time series (which only goes back to 75). Oh just go look at my post http://tinyurl.com/267hec4 ….

Robert Waldmann The Census Bureau has released estimates of poverty in 2009. Coverage focused on the headline poverty rate which is horrible enough. Much worse, 6.3% of people in the…

…some 67,000 jobs. But the drop in census temporary employment caused total nonfarm payroll employment to fall 54,000. The year over year gain in jobs as reported by both the…

…stemmed largely from the layoffs of census workers as private sector employment rose some 71,000 as compared to 31,000 last month. Compared to the historic norm employment employment gains this…