There’s a lot to say about these kind of comparisons (do we really want to get people to pit struggling cities against (in some cases) struggling countries?) but the raw numbers are interesting. Even more interesting would be a historical comparison of federal aid to Detroit and other U.S. cities (spoiler alert!). I Here Is…
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The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S.
Just for good old mapping fun. The Racial Dot Map: One Dot Per Person for the Entire U.S..
Rich people, poor people
Mayor Bloomberg’s interesting framing of how rich people bring more money to the city’s budget, which helps the many poor people living in the city (yes, despite all the frenzy about hipsters in NY, 46% of New Yorkers’s live under 150% of the federal poverty threshold, or less than $35,775 for a family of four)….
Household Incomes Remain Flat Despite Improving Economy – NYTimes.com
And how’s that recovery going? Inequality, poverty, incomes are all pretty much unchanged. This pretty much sums it up: “The good news from today’s 2012 income and poverty results is that for the first year since the Great Recession hit, things aren’t getting worse,” Jared Bernstein of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a…
The Radicalism of Today’s Austerity in One Chart | Economic Policy Institute
The Radicalism of Today’s Austerity in One Chart | Economic Policy Institute.