The 1940 census records were released by the US National Archives April 2, 2012, and brought online through a partnership with Archives.com. This website allows you full access to the 1940 census images, in addition to 1940 census maps and descriptions. Unfortunately,...
Health Care Spending by Age Group Since my previous attempt to break down health-care costs demographically was a failure, I thought I’d try it again. Here’s what I came up with. Age Group 1990 Total 2006 Total Under 25 $1,057 $3,016 25 to 34 $2,081 $4,576...
Healthcare Costs are Going Up Healthcare costs are rising. This is not a repeat from 1960, 1980, 1990, 2000 or just about every year in between. The chart below is the Census Bureau’s Healthcare CPI over the last 25 years for Physicians, Hospitals and...
Is the United States Broke? Not Even Close. With all the hand wringing going on over the housing and financial crisis I decided to see if I could put some of the massive numbers being thrown about in a little bit of perspective. Asset or Liability Timeframe Amount...
Municipal Solid Waste Generation, Materials Recovery, Combustion with Energy Recovery, and Discards in the United States: 1980 to 2006 (In millions of tons, except as indicated). Even though the United States is producing more waste, in total and per capita, because...
