by Niraj Chokshi. Not all Benjamins are created equal. For the first time ever, the federal government this year introduced a data series that compares price differences among states and metropolitan areas. Those estimates — regional price parities and real personal income — offer something simple and immensely useful for anyone considering ... MORE
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Showing posts with label statistics. Show all posts
Map: How Much $100 Is Really Worth In Every State
by Niraj Chokshi. Not all Benjamins are created equal. For the first time ever, the federal government this year introduced a data series that compares price differences among states and metropolitan areas. Those estimates — regional price parities and real personal income — offer something simple and immensely useful for anyone considering ... MOREDeroy Murdock: Global Warmists Getting Hot Under Collar
Where is the warming? As I start to write these words, I am on my Manhattan balcony savoring a Friday evening. It normally is oppressive this time of year. Stifling humidity and sweltering temperatures relentlessly squeeze New Yorkers in a brutal vice. The infernal stickiness typically keeps it from cooling down, even at night. It is not unusual ... MOREPeter Morici: The Real Unemployment Rate Is At Least 18%
Dismal future for low-skill workers. Friday, the Labor Department is expected to report the economy added 235,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate remained steady at 6.1 percent, but that hardly tells the story. The jobless rate may be down from its recession peak of 10 percent, but much of this results from adults, discouraged by ... MOREGun Homicides Down Dramatically; Americans Unaware
by Summer Dashe. An inconvenient truth for gun control advocates. It seems there is something in the news every day about gun violence. The recent mass shooting in Isla Vista, California, a movie theater riddled with bullets in Colorado, children and teachers gunned down at school in Connecticut, and the list goes on. While you may be seeing ... MORE
One In Five Women Is Sexually Assaulted In College?
by Samantha Harris. The White House's questionable data. In January, the White House announced the creation of a White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. On April 29, that task force came out with its first report, Not Alone,
which is intended to “help schools live up to their obligation to
protect students from ... MOREUnemployment Down As Americans Drop From Labor Force
by Ed Krayewski. The headlines say
the news is good. Official unemployment in the U.S. dropped from 6.7 to 6.3 percent, the lowest rate in five years, as 288,000 nonfarm jobs were added, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The steep drop in the unemployment rate, however, was a function
of more than 800,000 ... MORE
In 20% Of American Families, EVERYONE Is Unemployed
by Michael Snyder. The real unemployment rate. According to shocking new numbers that were just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20 percent of American families do not have a single person that is working. So when someone tries to tell you that the unemployment rate in the United States is about 7 percent, ... MOREThomas Sowell - Statistical Frauds
The discrimination hoax. The "war on women" political slogan is in fact a war against common sense. It is a statistical fraud when Barack Obama and other politicians say that women earn only 77 percent of what men earn — and that this is because of discrimination. It would certainly be discrimination if women were doing the same work as men, ... MORE
Crime Stats: Medical Pot Doesn't Lead To Crime
Walter E Williams: Dependency, Not Poverty
There is no material poverty in the U.S. Here are a few facts about people whom the Census Bureau labels as poor. Dr. Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield, in their study "Understanding Poverty in the United States: Surprising Facts About America's Poor", report that 80 percent of poor households have air conditioning; nearly three-quarters ... MORE1,154,000 Fewer Americans Working Than 6 Years Ago
by Ali Meyer. The bitter fruits of hope and change. 1,154,000 fewer Americans are working today than six years ago, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In January 2008, 146,378,000 Americans 16 and over were employed, and now in January 2014, 145,224,000 are employed, a difference of 1,154,000. 91,455,000 Americans 16 or ... MORE
Thomas Sowell: The Inequality Bogeyman
Stop calling envy "social justice". During a recent lunch in a restaurant, someone complimented my wife
on the perfume she was wearing. But I was wholly unaware that she was
wearing perfume, even though we had been in a car together for about
half an hour, driving to the restaurant. My sense of smell is very poor. But there is ... MORE
6 Shocking Studies That Prove Science Is Totally Broken
by Andrew Marinus, Alan Boyle and Jon Pearl. Even if you're not all that into science, it's still a big part of the
news that reaches you on a day-to-day basis -- you'll see interesting
headlines about how studies show marijuana cures loneliness or how other studies say pot ruins your memory, and you kind of just assume they're true. If scientists ... MOREThomas Sowell: Fact-Free Liberals
Read all four parts of this essay! Someone summarized Barack Obama in three words — "educated," "smart"
and "ignorant." Unfortunately, those same three words would describe all
too many of the people who come out of our most prestigious colleges
and universities today. President Obama seems completely ... MOREWSJ Opinion: Juking The ObamaCare Stats
Obama administration hides inconvenient truth. Most of Washington seems to have bought the White House claim that the 36 federal exchanges are finally working, and glory, glory, hallelujah. But if that's really true, then what explains the ongoing secrecy and evasion? On Wednesday the Health and Human Services Department ... MOREAnother Official Lie: The 2012 Fake Election Jobs Report
John Crudele on an election deception. In the home stretch of the 2012 presidential campaign, from August to September, the unemployment rate fell sharply — raising eyebrows from Wall Street to Washington. The decline — from 8.1 percent in August to 7.8 percent in September — might not have been all it seemed. The numbers, ... MORE
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