This section deals with poverty and distribution of income
in the United States of America for the following fundamental reasons:
a.- poverty and extreme inequality in the U.S. have been impossible to erradicate;
b.- the above because poverty and extreme inequality are the outcome of the internal dynamics of the capitalist
unregulated market;
c.- therefore, those who think that capitalist free-market is the driving force for achieving human
development should look at the U.S. to study the limits that free-market styles of
development pose to human development.
( Róbinson Rojas - 1998)
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From the ECONOMIC POLICY
INSTITUTE
Income Picture
August 28, 2007
Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance trends
in 2006
By Jared
Bernstein, Elise
Gould, and Lawrence
Mishel
Reflecting the fifth year of an economic expansion, the percent of
the nation in poverty fell last year, and the income of the median
household grew (after inflation) by about $360, or just under one
percent (0.7%), according to data released today by the U.S. Bureau of
the Census. This is the second year of real income gains for the
median household, and the first significant decline in poverty since
2000.
While both poverty and income have improved over the last few years,
it is disappointing that despite low unemployment and strong
productivity growth, these measures of living standards have yet to
recover to their levels of the previous business cycle peak in 2000.
In that year poverty was 11.3%, compared to 12.3% in 2006, an increase
in the poverty rolls of 4.9 million persons, including 1.2 million
children; median household income in 2006 was $48,201, about
$1,000 dollars (-2.0 %) below its 2000 level (in 2006 dollars). In other
words, economic growth over the last six years has totally bypassed the
typical middle-class household.
Read the complete report
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Combating
the Culture of Corruption. Or Not.
by Charlie Cray, 2006
--
Corruption
Roll Call: The Most Corrupt Members of Congress
by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, 2006
--
Caught
in Jack's Web: The Abramoff Associates' File
by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, 2006
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The Christian Science Monitor - August 03, 2006
New Treasury head eyes rising inequality
In his first major speech Monday, Henry Paulson pushed
America's wide income gap onto the agenda.
By Mark
Trumbull - Staff writer of The Christian
Science Monitor
The wide gap between the
richest and poorest Americans has not often been the topic of choice for the
Bush administration's two previous Treasury secretaries.
So it was notable this week that Henry Paulson,
the president's latest Treasury head, chose to put that issue on his short list
- as one of the nation's four prominent, long-term economic challenges. Mr.
Paulson's head-on approach during one of his first public appearances as
secretary differs from his predecessors' strategies, some analysts say.
The wealth gap is hardly new, but income inequality has been
growing in America over the past quarter century. Even as average worker
productivity has surged, average hourly earnings have stagnated. Meanwhile, the
nation's economic elites have prospered.
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Inequality in United States of America
The rich, the poor and the growing gap between them
The rich are the big gainers in America's new prosperity
From The Economist
print edition - June 15 2006
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Polarization in United States of America
The Evolution of Top
Incomes: A Historical and International Perspective
by Thomas Piketty
and Emmanuel Saez,
NBER WP 11955, January 2006
This paper summarizes the main findings of the recent studies that
have constructed top income and wealth shares series over the century
for a number of industrialized countries using tax statistics.
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How capitalist free
market creates poverty
Poverty in United States of America
For the fourth consecutive year, the poverty rate and the number of Americans
living in poverty both rose from the prior years. Since 2000, the number of poor
Americans has grown by more than 6 million. The official poverty rate in 2004
(the most current year for which figures are available) was 12.7 percent, up
from 12.5 percent in 2003. Total Americans below the official poverty thresholds
numbered 37 million, a figure 1.1 million higher than the 35.9 million in
poverty in 2003. (U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty and Health Insurance
Coverage in the United States: 2004)
On average, more
than one out of every three Americans - 37 percent of all people in the United
States - are officially classified as living in poverty at least 2 months out of
the year. (U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage
in the United States: 2004)
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From The Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn
Regional income inequality in selected large countries
A Heshmati, September 2004
The countries considered here cover transition (China
and Russia), developing (India) and industrialised (USA) countries. Empirical results
from the literature is further complemented and compared with those obtained from the
WIID data covering post 1950s.
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Moses Shayo
Nation, Class and Redistribution:
Applying Social Identity Research to Political Economy.
Princeton University - 2005 |
Alberto Alesina and George-Marios Angeletos
Corruption, Inequality and Fairness
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2005 |
O. C. Dincer and B. Gunalp
Corruption, income inequality and growth: evidence from U.S. States
Massey University, Auckland; Hacettepe University, Ankara - 2005 |
The New York Times
- 10 June 2005
Losing Our Country
By Paul Krugman
"The middle-class society I grew up in no longer exists. Working families have seen
little if any progress over the past 30 years. Adjusted for inflation, the income of the
median family doubled between 1947 and 1973. But it rose only 22 percent from 1973 to
2003, and much of that gain was the result of wives' entering the paid labor force or
working longer hours, not rising wages.
But the wealthy have done very well indeed. Since 1973 the average income of the top 1
percent of Americans has doubled, and the income of the top 0.1 percent has tripled."
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From CNN, August
26, 2004
Poverty spreads in the U.S.A.
Census Bureau says 1.3 million more slipped into poverty last
year; health care coverage also drops. |
U.S. Census Bureau
on Poverty
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance in the United States, 2003
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Róbinson
Rojas
About obscenities,
poverty and inequality in a capitalist system
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IDEAS: report 2002
Number of People in Poverty Increases in U.S.
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S. Cox (31 July
2003)
...In the U.S.A...from 1979 to 1997, the average annual income of the top 1% (after taxes)
increased by 157%, or $414,000 in 1997 dollars. Over the same period, the income of the
poorest 20% fell by $100.
Astronomical incomes
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From the International Monetary Fund
Western Hemisphere Department - August 1996
Income distribution and macroeconomic performance in the United States
By J. Cole and C. Towe
The factors underlying the rise in U.S. income inequality since the mid-1970s are examined.
The results suggest that the trend increase in income inequality has not been related to
macroeconomic developments, suc as income growth or import penetration, but that the income
distribution is sensitive to the cycle. Important factors that do help explain the widening
of the income distribution include the increased investment in technology and the decline
in the minimum wage. The rise in the share of single female-headed households, the
increased proportion of households headed by someone over the age of 35, and the fall in the
child-dependency ratio also help explain movements in income shares.
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U.S. Historical Income Data 1967-2003
Current Population Survey Tables:
Households
Families
People
Experimental
Measures
Income
Inequality
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Decennial Census
State
County
Metropolitan
Areas (MAs)
-------
History
of March CPS Changes
Cross-Reference
of Income Table Characteristics
Footnotes
for CPS Historical Income Tables
Current
vs. Constant (or Real) Dollars
Suggested
Citation Styles
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Historical CPS Income Tables
Historical Decennial Census
Income Tables
For more information regarding Current Population Income or Decennial Census
data, visit ask.census.gov
Go to Income Statistics
Go to Poverty Statistics
Last Revised: April 15, 2005
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_______________________
-- A brief
look at postwar U.S. income inequality
-- Briefing on 1995 U.S. income, poverty and health insurance
estimates
-- PRESS BRIEFING ON 1997 INCOME AND POVERTY ESTIMATES
-- Money Income in the United States: 1997
-- Table F. Median Income Using Different Definitions for
Households.
With Selected Characteristics: 1997
-- Table C. Median Income of Households by State
-- Table B. Selected Measures of Household Income Dispersion:1967 to
1997
-- Table A. Comparison of Summary Measures
of Income by Selected Characteristics: 1989, 1996 and 1997
-- ARE THE CHILDREN WORSE OFF? Evaluating Child Well-Being
Using a New (and Improved) Measure of Poverty,
By John Iceland and
Kathleen Short, U.S. Census Bureau, Thesia Garner and David
Johnson,
Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1999
-- Work related expenditures in a new measure of poverty,
By Kathleen Short, Martina Shea, T.J. Eller, 1996
-- Press briefing on 1996 income, poverty, and health insurance
estimates
________________________Charts:
- Poverty 1959-1997
- Median Household Income 1967-1997
- Poverty Rate in the U.S. Counties. 1990 Census.
- Poverty by race and Hispanic origin. 1990 Census
- Poverty by region. 1990 Census
- Poverty rate in the District of Columbia 1989/1990 Census
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From the US
Census
Bureau:
Poverty from 1959 to 2004
- Evaluation of Poverty Estimates: A
Comparison of the American Community Survey and the Current Population Survey
-
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2004
(P60-229)
Poverty Estimates in the United States: 2003
(P60-227)
-
Poverty in the United States: 2002
(P60-222)
-
Poverty in the United States: 2001
(P60-219)
-
Poverty in the United States: 2000
(P60-214)
-
Areas with Concentrated Poverty: 1999
(CENSR-16) [PDF]
-
Poverty: 1999
(C2KBR-19) (Census 2000)
-
Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty,
1996 to 1999 (SIPP)
-
Experimental Poverty Measures: 1999
(P60-216) [PDF]
-
Poverty in the United States: 1999
(P60-210) [PDF]
-
Poverty Among Working Families: Findings From Experimental Poverty Measures: 1998
(P23-203) [PDF]
- Detailed
Tables
-
Poverty in the United States: 1998
(P60-207) [PDF]
-
Experimental Poverty Measures: 1990-1997
(P60-205) [PDF]
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Poverty in the United States: 1997
(P60-201) [PDF]
-
Poverty in the United States: 1996
(P60-198) [PDF]
-
Poverty in the United States: 1995
(P60-194) [PDF]
-
Income and Poverty Statistics: 1994
(P60-189) [PDF]
-
Dynamics of Economic Well-Being: Poverty, 1993 to 1994: Trap
Door? Revolving Door? Or Both? (SIPP)
-
Income and Poverty Statistics: 1993
(P60-188) [PDF]
-
Poverty in the United States: 1992
(P60-185) [PDF - 17MB]
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Poverty in the United States: 1991
(P60-181) [PDF - 17MB]
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Poverty
Areas Statistical Brief (1990 Census)
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Poverty in the United States: 1990
(P60-175) [PDF - 16MB]
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Poverty in the United States: 1988
and 1989 (P60-171) [PDF - 18MB]
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Poverty in the United States: 1987
(P60-163) [PDF - 7MB]
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Poverty in the United States: 1986
(P60-160) [PDF - 11MB]
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Poverty in the United States: 1985
(P60-158) [PDF - 7MB]
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1984
(P60-152) [PDF - 8MB]
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1983
(P60-147) [PDF - 12MB]
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1982
(P60-144) [PDF - 11MB]
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1981
(P60-138) [PDF - 8MB]
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1980
(P60-133) [PDF - 8MB]
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Advance Data--Money Income and Poverty Status of Families and Persons in the
United States: 1980 (P60-127)
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1979
(P60-130) [PDF - 14MB]
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1978
(P60-124) [PDF - 9MB]
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1977
(P60-119) [PDF - 9MB]
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1976
(P60-115) [PDF - 9MB]
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1975
(P60-106) [PDF - 15MB]
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Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Level: 1974
(P60-102) [PDF - 8MB]
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Characteristics of the Low-Income Population: 1973
(P60-98) [PDF - 6MB]
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Advance Report--Characteristics of the Low-Income Population: 1973
(P60-94) [PDF - 656KB]
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Supplementary Report on the Low-Income Population: 1966
to 1972 (P60-95) [PDF - 3MB]
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Characteristics of the Low-Income Population: 1972
(P60-91) [PDF - 8MB]
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Advance Data--Characteristics of the Low-Income Population: 1972
(P60-88) [PDF - 524KB]
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Characteristics of the Low-Income Population: 1971
(P60-86) [PDF - 5MB]
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Advance Data--Characteristics of the Low-Income Population: 1971
(P60-82) [PDF - 502KB]
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Characteristics of the Low-Income Population: 1970
(P60-81) [PDF - 5MB]
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Advance Data-Poverty Increases by 1.2 Million in 1970
(P60-77) [PDF - 458KB]
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Poverty in the United States: 1969
(P60-76) [PDF - 5MB]
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Advance Data--Poverty Continues to Decline in 1969
(P60-71) [PDF - 1MB]
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Poverty in the United States: 1959
to 1968 (P60-68) [PDF - 6MB]
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Socioeconomic Trends in Poverty Areas 1960
to 1968 (P60-67) [PDF - 789KB]
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Characteristics of Families and Persons Living in Metropolitan Poverty Areas: 1967
(P60-61) [PDF - 1MB]
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Family Income Advance, Poverty Reduced in 1967
(P60-55) [PDF - 769KB]
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The Extent of Poverty in the United States: 1959
to 1966 (P60-54) [PDF - 1MB]
Alternative Definitions of Income (R&D
reports) (The following papers are from the Current Population Survey
unless otherwise noted)
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Measuring the Effect of Benefits and Taxes on Income and Poverty: 1992
(P60-186RD) [PDF]
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Measuring the Effect of Benefits and Taxes on Income and Poverty: 1979
to 1991 (P-60-182-RD) [PDF]
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Measuring the Effect of Benefits and Taxes on Income and Poverty: 1990
(P60-176-RD) [PDF]
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Measuring the Effect of Benefits and Taxes on Income and Poverty: 1989
(P60-169-RD) [PDF]
-
Measuring the Effect of Benefits and Taxes on Income and Poverty: 1987
to 1988 (P60-170-RD) [PDF]
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Measuring the Effect of Benefits and Taxes on Income and Poverty: 1986
(P60-164-RD-1) [PDF]
-
Technical Paper 58-Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits:
1987 [PDF
- 11MB]
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Technical Paper 57-Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits:
1986 [PDF
- 3MB]
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Technical Paper 56-Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits:
1985 [PDF
- 4MB]
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Technical Paper 55-Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits:
1984 [PDF
- 5MB]
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Technical Paper 52-Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits:
1983 [PDF
- 2MB]
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Technical Paper 51-Estimates of Poverty Including the Value of Noncash Benefits:
1979 to 1982 [PDF
- 3MB]
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Technical Paper 50-Alternative
Methods for Valuing Selected In-kind Transfer Benefits and Measuring their
Effect on Poverty [PDF]
-
Conference
on the Measurement of Noncash Benefits -- December 12-14, 1985, Fort
Magruder Inn & Conference Center, Williamsburg, Virginia [PDF - 44MB]
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U.S.
Census Bureau on Poverty (29 April 2004)
-- Recent
Poverty Measurement Research
-- Small
Area Estimates
Guidance on Survey Differences in Income and Poverty Estimates
POVERTY DEFINITION, THRESHOLDS AND GUIDELINES:
CURRENT POPULATION SURVEY
Alternative Measures of Poverty for 2001 and 2002 (Revised)
Poverty in the United States: 2002
(P60-222)
Detailed Poverty Tables: 2002
Detailed Poverty Tables: Previous
Years
Historical Tables from the Current Population Survey:
1959-2002
Previously
Issued CPS Poverty Reports
Low Income Uninsured Children by State
People 65 Years
and Over
by Ratio of Income to Poverty and State CPS Definitions and
Explanations = Map of Poverty Rates by State:
3 year averages, 1980-82 through 1998-00 -->
SURVEY OF INCOME AND PROGRAM PARTICIPATION (SIPP):
DECENNIAL CENSUS:
Contact the Housing and Household Statistics
Division Information Staff at (301)763-3242 or visit ask.census.gov
for further information on Poverty Statistics.
Go to Income Statistics
Last Revised: April 29, 2004 |
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9 June 2005
Capitalist Economic Terrorism
Free-market fundamentalism, which can be
better described as capitalist economic
terrorism, is creating a world with a small bunch of super rich and a big majority just
surviving on their subsistence income. United States is a telling case study of this. What began
with the Reagan Administration is reaching obscene
features with the Bush
Administration. Statistics show that "for every additional dollar earned by the
bottom 90 percent of the population between 1950 and 1970, those in the top 0.01 percent
earned an additional $162. That gap has since skyrocketed. For every additional dollar
earned by the bottom 90 percent between 1990 and 2002, each taxpayer in that top bracket
brought in an extra $18,000." The New York Times is publishing a special section
("Class Matters"), from which I select here some important texts. They show how
capitalist economic terrorism (free-market fundamentalism) can disjoint a society. The
winners are the ones who have at their service a political class serving their interests
by unleashing political and economic terrorism (otherwise known as globalization) all over
planet Earth. They are building a larger U.S. empire. Modern Caligulas like Bush et al are
the top layer of that political class. ( Róbinson Rojas - June
2005)
The Bush Economy (7 June 2005)
Richest Are Leaving Even the
Rich Far Behind (5 June 2005)
Crushing Upward Mobility (7 June 2005)
Class Matters. A special section
(8 June 2005)
The Mobility Myth (6 June 2005)
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6 September 2005
Capitalist Social Terrorism
Capitalist markets work
concentrating capital in the hands of a minority creating capitalist economic
terrorism (as I defined it elsewhere) because capital concentration gives also
overwhelming political power to the big capitalists and their political servants. From the
above capitalist social terrorism arises, which dramatically polarizes society. United States
of America is the best example of this capitalist social terrorism in action which Hurricane Katrina
uncovered for the whole world to see. In United States of America like in any modern capitalist
society creation of wealth goes parallel to creation of inequality and poverty. The
texts below, taken from The Washington Post and The New York Times, are a useful
description of the main features of capitalist social terrorism. (
Róbinson Rojas, 6 September 2005)
From The New York Times - 8 September 2005
Macabre
Reminder: The Corpse on Union Street
By Dan Barry
NEW ORLEANS, - In the downtown business district here, on a dry stretch of Union Street,
past the Omni Bank automated teller machine, across from a parking garage offering
"early bird" rates: a corpse. Its feet jut from a damp blue tarp. Its knees rise
in rigor mortis. Six National Guardsmen walked up to it on Tuesday afternoon and two
blessed themselves with the sign of the cross. One soldier took a parting snapshot like
some visiting conventioneer, and they walked away. New Orleans, September 2005.
---
From The Washington Post - 6 September 2005
The Lagging
Poor
"The Census Bureau's annual report on
income, poverty and health insurance in the United States is not alarming -- but neither
is it cheering, or even reassuring. Rather, the numbers underscore the lagging and uneven
nature of the economic recovery since the 2001 recession. According to the new data, 4
million more people were living in poverty in 2004 than in 2001, and 4.6 million more
people lacked health insurance."
---
From The New York Times - 6 September 2005
The Larger
Shame
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
The wretchedness coming across our television screens from Louisiana has illuminated the
way children sometimes pay with their lives, even in America, for being born to poor
families.
---
From The Washington Post - 5 September 2005
Disaster Cleanup
Halliburton
Subsidiary Taps Contract For Repairs
By Lolita C. Baldor
An Arlington-based Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has been criticized for its
reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract to do emergency
repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
---
From The Washington Post - 3 September 2005
Kanye West's
Torrent of Criticism, Live on NBC
"I hate the way they portray us in the media. You
see a black family, it says, "They're looting." You see a white family, it says,
"They're looking for food." And, you know, it's been five days [waiting for
federal help] because most of the people are black."
By Lisa de Moraes
---
From The Washington Post - 3 September 2005
Oil Firms
Turn Katrina Into Profits, Clinton Says
N.Y. Senator Criticizes Lack of National Leadership,
Freedom From Imports
By Dan Balz
---
From The New York Times - 3 September 2005
Editorial
Katrina's
Assault on Washington
Do not be misled by Congress's approval of $10.5
billion in relief for the Hurricane Katrina victims. That's prompted by the graphic shock
of the news coverage from New Orleans and the region, where the devastation catapults
daily, in heartbreaking contrast with the slo-mo bumblings of government.
---
From The New York Times - 3 September 2005
United
States of Shame
By Maureen Dowd
Stuff happens. And when you combine limited government with incompetent government, lethal
stuff happens. America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting,
raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police
force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning. But this
time it's happening in America.
---
From The New York Times - 2 September 2005
They Saw It
Coming
By Mark Fischetti
THE deaths caused by Hurricane Katrina are heart-rending. The suffering of survivors is
wrenching. Property destruction is shocking. But perhaps the most agonizing part is that
much of what happened in New Orleans this week might have been avoided.
---
From The New York Times - 2 September 2005
From Margins
of Society to Center of the Tragedy
By David González
The scenes of floating corpses, scavengers fighting for food and desperate throngs seeking
any way out of New Orleans have been tragic enough. But for many African-American leaders,
there is a growing outrage that many of those still stuck at the center of this tragedy
were people who for generations had been pushed to the margins of society
---
From The New York Times - 2 September 2005
Cameras
Captured a Disaster but Now Focus on Suffering
By Alessandra Stanley
A woman in a wheelchair, her face and body covered by a plaid blanket, dead, and left next
to a wall of the New Orleans convention center like a discarded supermarket cart. There
were many other appalling images from Hurricane Katrina on Thursday, but that one was a
turning point: after three days of flood scenes, television shifted from recording a
devastating natural disaster to exposing human failures.
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From the U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics
Division
Data and reports on income, poverty and health insurance
Income
Main
Overview
Reports
Definitions
Related
Topics
Micro
Data Access
FAQ
Income, Poverty, and
Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 2006
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2004
(P60-229)
The Effects of Government Taxes and Transfers on Income and Poverty: 2004
August
2005 Press Briefing including Charts
August
2005 Press Release
Income 2004
Median
Household Income by State - 2002-2004
Tables of
Income by Detailed Socioeconomic Characteristics - 1994 - 2006
Alternative
Income Estimates in the United States: 2003 (P60-228)
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003
(P60-226)
Money Income in the United States: 2002
(P60-221)
Money Income in the United States: 2001
(P60-218)
Money Income in the United States: 2000
(P60-213)
Money Income in the United States: 1999
(P60-209)
Money Income in the United States: 1998
(P60-206)
The Changing Shape of the Nation's Income Distribution, 1947-98
(P60-204)
Measuring 50
Years of Economic Change Using the March CPS (P60-203)
Money Income in the United States: 1997
(P60-200)
Changes in Median Household Income: 1969
to 1996
Money Income in the United States: 1996
(P60-197)
Money Income in the United States: 1995
(P60-193)
Income and Poverty Statistics: 1994
(P60-189)
Income and Poverty Statistics: 1993
Consumer Income Reports: (1946
to 2006)
American Community Survey
Income:
Data Collection, Processing, and Comparisons to the 1990 Census, June 2000.
Income
in the ACS: Comparisons to the 1990 Census (Powerpoint Slides)
American Housing Survey
Discrepancies
Between Measured Income in the American Housing Survey (AHS)
and the Current Population Survey
(CPS)[PDF]
Current Population Survey
Income
Data Quality Issues in the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the
Current Population Survey. [PDF]
Using
Administrative Earnings Records to Assess Wage Data Quality in the March
Current Population Survey and the Survey
of Income and Program Participation. [PDF]
New
Methods for Simulating CPS Taxes [PDF]
CPS
ASEC 2005 Tax Model Documentation [PDF]
Assessing the
Quality of the March Current Population Survey and the
Survey of Income and Program
Participation Income Estimates, 1990-1996. [PDF]
Comparability
of CPS Income Data with Other Data
Shares of
Income Received by Quintiles When Equivalent Income Is Used as
the Measure of Income [PDF]
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Current Population Survey (CPS): (CPS
Main Home Page)
American Community Survey (ACS) (ACS
Home Page)
Income, Earnings, and Poverty from the 2004 American Community Survey (ACS-01)
[PDF]
Profiles
(Table 3 contains income statistics)
Multi-Year
Profile
Detailed
tables
Decennial Census:
2000 (Your Gateway
to Census 2000)
Summary File 4 (SF4)
Summary File 3 (SF3)
Demographic Profiles
Earnings by
Occupation and Education (state data)
Evidence From Census 2000 About Earnings by Detailed Occupation for Men
and Women (CENSR-15)
[PDF]
Census 2000 PHC-T-33. Earnings Distribution of U.S.Year-Round
Full-Time Workers by Occupation: 1999
Census 2000 Auxiliary Evaluation: Comparing
Employment, Income, and Poverty: Census 2000 and Current Population Survey
[PDF]
1990
Census Home Page
1990 Census of Population & Housing Paper Listings (CPH-L)
1990 Census
Reports
Survey of Income and Program Participation
(SIPP
Home Page)
Dynamics of Economic
Well-Being: Income 1993 to 1994 [PDF]
Moving Up and Down the Income
Ladder
Reports
(P70), Statistical Briefs, and Working Papers
Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD)
(SPD
Home Page)
1997 Data
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE)
(SAIPE
Home Page)
Model-based
estimates for states and counties.
Please read the
Overview
and FAQs before
attempting to use the state and county tables.
The Changing Shape of the Nation's Income Distribution, 1947-98 (P60-204)
Previously
issued Income Inequality Reports
Narrative
on Income Inequality (Middle Class)
Historical
Tables on Income Inequality
4-Person
Median Family Income by State
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