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October 5, 2023
Do 60 Percent Of American Workers Have Insecure Jobs?
…at least $40,000 in 2022. Not too different from American Compass. Incidentally, the median female worker in this group earned $45,000. American Compass has selected an initial criterion for job…
September 15, 2023
What Does a Good Economy Look Like?
…our ills. It shows, along various different methods of estimation, the median income for American men — whose difficulties are of particular concern to conservative populists worried about marriageability, family…
September 14, 2023
The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight
…life prospects of children — far more than the usually invoked suspects of race and gender. According to Kearney, in 2019, “77% of white children and 88% of Asian children…
September 12, 2023
Please, Gen Z Aren’t “Doomed to be the First Generation of Americans Who Will Grow Up with a Lower Standard of Living Than Their Parents”
…the 19th-century British historian and politician, Thomas Babington Macaulay: “On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?”…
July 27, 2023
Time to Do Something About the NILFs
…54 (1950-2021) Data sources: Mitra Toosi, “A century of change: the U.S. labor force, 1950–2050,” May 2002, Census.gov; and “Civilian labor force participation rate by age, sex, race, and ethnicity,” Table 3.3, Census.gov (accessed on July 26, 2023)….
June 22, 2023
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
…purchase in 1985. For 2022, Cass’s answer to that question is a strong “no”: It would take more weeks than there are in a year for the median man to…
April 17, 2023
Data Tools 6: The Geography of Traditional Families in America
…other two-parent configurations. In the 2021 ACS, median family income was $115,600 for children of married birth parents, $87,300 for children of parent-stepparent couples, and only $33,500 for children of…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…confirm that the conventional wisdom is off-base. According to the CBO, median household income from market activities – labor, business, and capital income, as well as retirement income from past…
September 21, 2022
Lessons from the Unprecedented Fraud and Abuse of the Unemployment Benefits System During the Pandemic
…administration of the Unemployment Insurance system. My name is Matt Weidinger, and I am a senior fellow and Rowe Scholar in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I previously…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…Index for All Urban Consumers each year, and a relative measure should update thresholds by the same percentage at which median income changes each year. Remove geographic adjustments from the…