truthful politics reviewed unemployment, labor force participation, and job opening statistics provided by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides the official numbers on the above for the U.S. Several charts follow below. All of the charts expand to make the data easier to view. Click on a chart […Full Article]
truthful politics reviewed jobs statistics provided by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and the top tax rate provided by the Tax Policy Center and the Tax Foundation. The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides the official numbers on jobs gained or lost for the U.S. The chart below shows how many jobs annually were […Full Article]
truthful politics reviewed jobs statistics provided by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics provides the official numbers on jobs gained or lost for the U.S. Both charts below show how many jobs annually were created, or lost, nationally during presidential terms and/or political party. The numbers are in thousands. […Full Article]
The Export-Import Bank of the United States is the official export credit agency of the United States. A short history of presidential support for the Bank follows: President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democrat) established the Export-Import Bank of Washington through Executive Order 6581 on February 2, 1934. President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Republican) on February 12, 1959 […Full Article]
Robert Gordon and Ian Dew-Becker in May 2008 wrote the following about economic inequality in the United States: Between 1979 and 2005, the income gap for women between the 50th percentile and the bottom 10th percentile grew more than for men at the same income levels for the same time period. Between 1973 and 2001, […Full Article]
Annually, the World Economic Forum presents its Global Competitiveness Report to highlight strengths and weaknesses of countries, their overall business climate, and priorities for policy change. The 2013-2014 report ranked the U.S. as follows: Number 5 overall out of 148 countries. #35 in institutions #15 in infrastructure #117 in macroeconomic environment #34 in health and […Full Article]
In spite of (or perhaps because of) all the recent chaos over embarrassing revelations of the surveillance habits of the US government, the Obama Administration pushed forward with its climate agenda last week and announced plans to further curb future carbon emissions. The plan, unveiled by the President during a speech at Georgetown University, called […Full Article]
This article contains information and statistics from several sources about income and/or wealth distribution in the United States. G. William Domhoff in February of 2013 wrote about the distribution on income & wealth in the U.S.A. The definition of wealth used in the article is the value of everything a person or family owns, minus […Full Article]
This article contains several charts and videos concerning the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. All the charts expand to make the data easier to view. Click on a chart to expand it, and click on the expanded chart to shrink it back to its original size. The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and […Full Article]
truthful politics has 3 different charts showing the number of jobs created in the U.S. organized by presidential terms and/or political party. To view total U.S. jobs created, including government jobs, during presidential terms and/or political party, click on U.S. Job Creation by President/Political Party. To view total U.S. private sector jobs created, thus NOT […Full Article]