U.S. Census Bureau
The Census Bureau recently published its latest report on income and poverty in the United States. The U.S. poverty rate declined year over year in 2019, and most groups benefited. But inequality...
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The Census Bureau's advance report on August retail sales indicates the U.S. economy is going through a slow-motion recovery.
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While the official poverty rate was 10.5% last year, the level varies sharply from state to state. In Mississippi, the figure was 82% higher than the national average.
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New home sales surged in May to an annualized rate of 676,000. The month-over-month growth was largely due to a substantial downward revision in the estimates for April.
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They are mostly old American manufacturing hubs that have lost their manufacturing employers. In a period of modest population growth, these cities shrank handily.
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Not surprisingly, five of the 10 fastest-growing U.S. cities are in Texas, which has been the fastest-growing state for years.
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released its unemployment numbers for America’s 389 metro areas for the month of November. The trend was generally positive. Unemployment for the month was down...
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The world population will be more than 7.62 billion as the clock ticks into the first moments of January 1, 2020, a year-over-year increase of about 1%.
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As the clock hits midnight and a new decade begins January 1, the population of the United States will reach more than 330.2 million.
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Sales of new homes rose both year over year and month over month in November. New home sales have exceeded a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 700,000 for four consecutive months.
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As the U.S. government begins it once per decade count of the nation's population, there was worry that the process would be underfunded, which means it would be less likely the count would be...
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The Bureau of Labor Statistics just released its unemployment numbers for America’s 389 metro areas for the month of October. The trend was generally positive. Unemployment for the month was...
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The size of the average U.S. household in 1790 was 5.79 people. By 2010 that figure was 2.58 people. That long-term trend appears to have reversed itself very recently, according to recently released...
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Much of the conversation around the problem of vacant homes involves abandoned houses in America's cities, particularly old urban areas that have lost population and experienced increased poverty...
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New home construction rose by nearly 8% month over month in August and by 12% year over year.
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