Collecting My Thoughts

It must have hurt to have to say good things about the Trump economy or the nation in general in this Pew (left of center) Report, which cam...

For Example: There are three married couples; all named The Bruces. White, 8th generation, college educated Americans.   Bruces A are 20+ ...

"Both low- and high-skilled natives are affected by the influx of immigrants. But because a disproportionate percentage of immigrants h...

Don’t fall for those memes and posters on income disparity, all weepy about how awful things are.  There’s household income, individual inco...

  "Income and Poverty in the United States: 2015" I've found the gap problem. Marriage. Married couple households in 2014,...

Do Trump supporters disrupt Hillary's speeches? I watched on TV some protests at a Detroit church. Apparently it went well. The media r...

      By 2050, when our children are 80+ there will twice as many seniors as today. So the purpose of this study (BLS) is to figur...

At the county level we've lost a lot of ground under Obama. "Based on poverty rate estimates for all 3,141 counties for all ages, ...

Today I was looking at a report on income within quintiles, and see that in the bottom, about 50% move up, quite a few to the top. But in th...

Robert D. Putnam was our program at Lakeside last night--he’s an entertaining, engaging speaker, about my age, married 55 years, a Harvar...

Research published in 2012 debunked the idea that "food deserts" were hurting poor people. You can take people to the best superma...

There are five quintiles the government uses to show economic groups in the U.S. The top quintile (incomes about $94,000+) pays almost 84% o...

“Measured in 2013 dollars, after-tax median income rose briskly from $46,998 in 1983 to $70,393 in 2008 but remained below that 2008 peak in...

Don't be fooled by sob stories about minimum wage.  It's a tiny percentage of American workers—4.3% of hourly wage earners and 2.9...

“To represent the classes at the two ends of the continuum, I give you two fictional neighborhoods that I hereby label Belmont (after an arc...

Notice that the bottom quintile is lifted briefly about 10 years, and after that the top quintile takes off. Poverty is lucrative business f...

Today I was looking at the U.S. Census.  Now, to answer a question, you can’t always get a table of Honey Crisp apples.  Sometimes it’s appl...

“If Michelle Nunn wins that means Democrats keep control of the Senate and we can keep on doing some good works.” Barack Obama Let’s look ...

According to ColumbusCEO magazine, May 2014, there is a considerable income gap—among professions. Salary averages for a range of executiv...

Only about 2% of the population is gay--and most of them haven’t taken the steps to insure their partners (at Ohio State you can buy insuran...