Misblog

Originally Published August 26, 2008: Updated and Republished December 09, 2008:

The United States Bureau of Census, Statistical Branch is reporting little or no change in Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2007 (3Meg pdf). Few Americans will be surprised that the current wrecking crew administration has failed to make progress in solving any of our fundamental problems—unchanged is a blessing out of this pathetic administration. The Gini index, a measure of distribution, has declined slightly from 0.470 to 0.463—your parents Gini was in the .3s!

Like we target economic growth with low inflation we must target income and wealth growth with low gini.

Web:

• UPDATED 12/09/2008 NYT, Uninsured Put a Strain on Hospitals. Kinda makes you wonder what our policymakers have been doing (or more precisely not doing) for the last decade?

  Our economically disadvantaged have been dealing with this for quite sometime, but I guess the way our system works we have to wait for enough "your oxen" to get gored before we demand treatment from our policymakers?

• UPDATED 08/27/2008 WP, Poverty Rate Held Steady Last Year, Census Says