The PEW article Americans Who Mainly Get Their News on Social Media Are Less Engaged, Less Knowledgeable by Amy Mitchell, Mark Jurkowitz, J. Baxter Oliphant and Elisa Shearer (7/30/2020) answers the question with the graph copied here. As of late last year, 18% of U.S. adults say they turn most …
Read More »Is the racial wealth gap evenly distributed by class?
The article The Racial Wealth Gap is About the Upper Classes by Matt Bruenig (6/29/2020) on the People’s Policy Project explains. First the racial wealth gap is large: If you take the net worth of all white households and divide it by the number of white households, you get $900,600. …
Read More »What is the relationship between class, race, and police killings?
The People’s Policy Project reports on their recent research paper in the post Class and Racial Inequalities in Police Killings (6/23/2020). The full paper, Police Killings in the U.S. is by Justin Feldman, ScD. In general, The highest-poverty areas have a police killing rate of 6.4 per million while the …
Read More »What is the connection between crime and lead?
Kevin Drum asks a good question in his post How Many Cops Does New York City Need? First note that violent crime has been dropping since around 1990 (see his graph copied here for examples). In particular for NYC: The per capita number of police officers increased by about 10 …
Read More »How has Covid-19 impacted unemployment by race?
The chart here comes from using FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data). Since at least the 1970s Hispanic or Latino (using FRED terms) unemployment was consistently between Black or African American and White and more recently slightly closer to White unemployment. For possibly the first time since the 1970s Hispanic or …
Read More »How does C-19 deaths compare to other causes of deaths in the U.S.?
Here is an excellent animated visualization of daily deaths of C-19 as compared to other leading causes of deaths in the U.S. This chart stops at April 14. According to Worldometers here are the number of daily deaths from April 15 through April 22: 2618, 2176, 2538, 1867, 1561, 1939, …
Read More »How have wages grown since 1979?
The EPI article State of Working America Wages 2019 by Elise Gould (2/20/2020) provides a detailed summary of wage growth. For example, copied here is the third of over 20 charts. Note that he bottom 10 percent is barely above 0 and only recently got there. A related fact from …
Read More »Who has the highest Gini of G7 countries?
The Pew article 6 facts about economic inequality in the U.S. by Katherine Schaeffer (2/7/2020) provides the chart copied here (2017 data). One of the other facts mentioned in the article: In 1989, the richest 5% of families had 114 times as much wealth as families in the second quintile (one tier …
Read More »What are people’s view of C-19?
The Pew article Worries About Coronavirus Surge, as Most Americans Expect a Recession – or Worse (3/26/2020) reports the results from a survey related to COVID-19. Most of it is not too surprising: There is broad public agreement that the nation is confronting a crisis. Two-thirds of Americans – including …
Read More »C-19, counts or per capita?
The media tends to focus on the number C-19 deaths in a country, but per capita provides a better understanding of the impact in a country. The Our World in Data page Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) – Statistics and Research page has interactive graphs for per capita deaths. For example, currently …
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