Full Press Release Preliminary tax collection data for the January-March quarter of 2012 show further growth in overall state tax collections, as well as for income and sales tax revenues, for the ninth consecutive quarter. However, the growth in tax collections has been softening in the last three quarters. We will provide a full report…
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Factory Orders Fell in April Says Census Bureau, But Did They Really?
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New orders for manufactured goods in April, down three of the last four months, decreased $2.9 billion or 0.6 percent to $466.0 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. This followed a 2.1 percent March decrease. Excluding transportation, new orders decreased 1.1 percent. http://www.census.gov/manufacturing/m3/prel/pdf/s-i-o.pdf OK, let’s get all excited, before we remember that this is seasonally adjusted nonsense that makes…
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From Graduate School to Welfare
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…[T]he percentage of graduate-degree holders who receive food stamps or some other aid more than doubled between 2007 and 2010. During that three-year period, the number of people with master’s degrees who received food stamps and other aid climbed from 101,682 to 293,029, and the number of people with Ph.D.’s who received assistance rose from…
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Assets of major public pension funds slid 8.5% in third quarter
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Assets of major public pension funds slid 8.5% in third quarter
December 28, 2011 | 9:53am
The stock market’s summer slide took a toll on public pension funds, with the assets of the 100 largest ones down 8.5% in the third quarter of 2011, the Census…
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Older, Suburban and Struggling
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WASHINGTON — They drive cars, but seldom new ones. They earn paychecks, but not big ones. Many own homes. Most pay taxes. Half are married, and nearly half live in the suburbs. None are poor, but many describe themselves as barely scraping by. …
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Most of the unemployed no longer receive aid
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Most of the unemployed no longer receive aid
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER
The Associated Press
Updated Nov 5, 2011 11:16PM
Washington • The jobs crisis has left so many people out of work for so long that most of America’s unemployed are no longer …
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A Long, Steep Drop for Americans’ Standard of Living
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Think life is not as good as it used to be, at least in terms of your wallet? You’d be right about that. The standard of living for Americans has fallen longer and more steeply over the past three years than at any time since the US government began…
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Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept Falling
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October 9, 2011
Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept Falling
By ROBERT PEAR
WASHINGTON — In a grim sign of the enduring nature of the economic slump, household income declined more in the two years after the recession ended than it did durin…
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It Makes You Wonder
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In “Burger Flippers, Babysitting Grandmas Show Recession Lives On,” Bloomberg details where things stand for the average American.
Americans flipped more burgers, rented more homes, used less-expensive heating fuel and asked for more government hel…
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The impoverishment of the West
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Sep 21, 2011
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The impoverishment of the West
By Martin Hutchinson
The US Census Bureau’s study of American incomes, poverty and health coverage issued last week was most interesting when considered, not as a metric of this recession…
