…is getting only worse. An analysis by the higher education consulting firm Ruffalo Noel Levitz, using the latest available census figures, now projects another drop in the number of 18-year-olds beginning in…

…Census Bureau data. These cuts could push this higher, putting additional pressure on hospitals, emergency services, as well as the individuals and families left without coverage. While the unwinding process…

…developed by the government. The steam engine was an outgrowth of England’s military need for cannons. Computers were an outgrowth of the US need to tabulate its census. You can…

…report is a survey. But once every quarter, with unfortunately about a six month lag, an actual census of almost 100% of all employers is published, based on their tax…

…surging prices, housing has indeed turned down. This morning the Census Bureau reported that housing permits, the most leading of these metrics, rose 1,000 annualized, while starts, which are noisier…

…with the business cycle. There are temporary spikes every ten years due to the collection of the Census. Reductions in federal employment, such as during the Clinton administration in the…

…latest update for the “gold standard” QCEW census for Q3 of last year, barring revisions in that series it looks very much like last year’s employment situation was even weaker…

…and George Washington University’s Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity. Reporters also analyzed U.S. Census Bureau, CDC, and other data to understand the health status and demographics of those counties….

…from 7.82 percent of the workforce in 2010 to 10.94 percent in 2024. Slashing the size of the federal workforce is thus bound to disproportionately hurt Black workers, while freezing…

…for the census estimate of population growth, they are up only 0.6%. And here is the long term historical graph of nonfarm payrolls for the 70 years before the pandemic,…