“People who live in rural areas are more likely to own their own homes, live in their state of birth and have served in the military than their urban counterparts, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey…As the nation’s largest household survey, the American Community Survey is the only… Continue Reading
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Brookings Report – The Wealthy-Hand-to-Mouth
“In “The Wealthy-Hand-to-Mouth,” authors Greg Kaplan of Princeton University, Giovanni Violante of New York University and Justin Weidner of Princeton University find that both the wealthy hand-to-mouth (those with little or no liquid wealth but substantial holdings of illiquid assets – those that carry a transaction cost to access, such as housing, large durables, or… Continue Reading
American dream of exceeding income of parents drops to 50% for children born in 1985
Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Estimates for the United States – Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics); Emmanuel Saez (UC Berkeley and NBER); Gabriel Zucman (UC Berkeley and NBER). December 2, 2016 Abstract – “This paper combines tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of national income in the United States since… Continue Reading
Mapping the Origins of Redlining the United States
Center for Data Visualization – Mapping the Origins of Redlining the United States “A team of professors and students from the University of Richmond, the University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute have created a data visualization called Mapping Inequality that combines 150 interactive maps of cities in the United States… Continue Reading
Renters More Likely to Be Food Insecure Than Homeowners
“About 10.5 million American households, or roughly 8.9 percent, reported that in the past month their access to adequate food was limited by a lack of money and other resources, according to new 2015 American Housing Survey statistics released today by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Census Bureau.… Continue Reading
The State of the Nations Housing 2016
Joint Center for Housing – Harvard University: The State of the Nations Housing 2016: “By many measures, the US housing market has recovered substantially from the crash. According to CoreLogic estimates, nominal home prices were back within 6 percent of their previous peak in early 2016, although still down nearly 20 percent in real terms. The uptick… Continue Reading
Report – The Color of Wealth in the Nation’s Capital
Urban Institute, Kilolo Kijakazi, Rachel Marie Brooks Atkins, Mark Paul, Anne Price, Darrick Hamilton, William A. Darity Jr. November 1, 2016: “The Great Recession and housing crisis erased approximately half of Black and Latino households’ wealth, while Asians suffered the largest absolute loss in wealth. But the dramatic wealth disparities between White communities and communities… Continue Reading
American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample Files Now Available
“The U.S. Census Bureau released the Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) files from the 2015 American Community Survey 1-year estimates. The PUMS files contain data on approximately 1 percent of the U.S. population and are now available for users to create their own tabulations. The files show population and housing characteristics down to Public Use… Continue Reading
Report – Investing in Urban Resilience
World Bank – “Natural disasters – such as Hurricane Matthew – and climate change are having devastating effects on cities and the 4 billion people who live in them today. By 2030, without significant investment into making cities more resilient, natural disasters may cost cities worldwide $314 billion each year, up from around $250 billion… Continue Reading
Census Data Visualization Gallery
“Data Visualization Gallery. A weekly exploration of Census data. The Census Bureau is working to increase our use of visualization in making data available to the public, and this gallery is an early part of that effort. The first posted visualizations will pertain largely to historical population data, building on prior work done to portray… Continue Reading
Will NYC become a gradual Atlantis?
New York Magazine – Even locals who believe climate change is real have a hard time grasping that their city will almost certainly be flooded beyond recognition, by Andrew Rice “Klaus Jacob, a German professor affiliated with Columbia’s University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, is a geophysicist by profession and a doomsayer by disposition. I’ve gotten to… Continue Reading
Where Does All the Money Go: Shifts in Household Spending Over the Past 30 Years
Brookings – Shifts in Household Spending Over the Past 30 Years, Jun 2016. “Economic progress occurs unevenly, diffusely, and at times unpredictably: whole categories of spending diminish or grow as technology and preferences shift. For instance, as the relative price of clothing has plummeted, the share of spending going to clothing has declined; at the… Continue Reading
